6 Feb 2018 – Regret

Miranda Hernandez

Your donor has brown eyes. So do I. I still wonder if yours would have been green or violet or newborn baby blue.

I still wonder if I should have waited just one more moment longer–surely you were only sleeping?

Regret (Write Your Grief) AdrianHernandez_newborn-6 — Miranda with Adrian at the hospital (Mamarazzi Photography)

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