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It was the perfect night.
Hell, the perfect fucking life.
“Mom!” one of the twins shrieked when her brother plucked the last pepperoni off her slice and tossed it into his mouth.
“Daddy!” one of the others called, and I look over to see she’d spilled her entire cup of juice.
Still… yep… perfect.
Amaranta - 30 years
“Mom,” Rowan, our eldest said, rolling her eyes at me and my waterworks.
And, I mean, I got it.
I would have probably rolled my eyes too if my mother came in to my workplace on my first day and started crying.
What can I say?
It was a full-circle kind of moment for me.
Seeing my little girl standing in the clinic that had meant so much to me, wearing a white coat and a name tag that said ‘doctor’ on it.
I don’t think Seeley or I ever saw it coming that Rowan would want to be a doctor. She’d always been so headstrong and fearless, so much more like her father than me.
And, honestly, not even Rowan seemed to have it in her plans.
Until one of her cousins took a bullet to the leg.
And she’d been the one around to fish it out and seal it up.
I’d been both horrified and proud in equal turns when I heard the news. Then confused, yet tentatively hopeful when she told me she was going to go to medical school.
Then she came out and she filled my shoes.
Doing good work at the clinic.
The now very, funded clinic that could afford to pay her a fair salary for all her hard work.
“Sorry I’m late,” Seeley said, walking up next to me, handing me a small pack of tissues that he brought with him, because the man knew me well.
“What kept you?” I asked, looking over and seeing our son leaning on Seeley’s car.
“Had to bail that one out of jail,” he said, smirking.
One kid starting her first day of work as a doctor, the other getting arrested on some petty charge.
Yeah.
That seemed about right for our family.
And, amazingly, I wouldn’t have had it any other way.
