Underneath them lay a handwritten note.
Our daughter, Emma, lived for nineteen hours. Packing away her things almost destroyed me.
Someone once told me that love doesn’t disappear when a child does—it just has to find somewhere else to go.
Please let these things help another baby.
I covered my mouth with a shaking hand.
Then I opened the next stroller and the next box.
A second blanket lay inside, along with a knitted elephant.
There was another letter.
It began:
Our son Owen was stillborn at thirty-eight weeks…
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