I Thought the White String in My Egg Was Something Dangerous—The Truth Completely Surprised Me

one of them got through something hard, I’d say quietly, “You were chosen this morning.”

They rolled their eyes the way teenagers do when they secretly need to hear something.

Whenever the girls asked about Claire, I gave them the same honest, incomplete answer: “Your mother made a choice she thought she needed to make. I made a different one.”

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