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The contraction hit so hard I nearly dropped the phone, but my husband’s voice was colder than the hospital floor beneath my feet. “Handle it yourself, Phoebe. Stop being so dramatic,” Rowan snapped—and then he hung up to attend his mother’s birthday dinner. For three seconds, I stared at the dark screen, unable to understand…
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The first line stopped the responder cold. He glanced at his partner, lifted the radio from his shoulder, and reported what the mother had written before either of them tried to guess what it meant. The note began with five words that changed the shape of the emergency: “I’ve been blacking out again.” Below that,…
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