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"The year turns, and in the dead of winter a surrender changes everything."

"Birth. His mother cuddles him and cradles him, and feeds him his first meal. Happy to hold this life she has felt within her all these months. (...) She knows him already, and loves him. The midwife takes her husband aside when he arrives home from work. Heads him off before he reaches the bedroom door. Unlike his wife, he never gets to look at his son and feel him perfect: to love him prior to knowing his fault."