Creature Comforts

—Carissa Tarasovich, Rotterdam, New York

SIX MONTHS OF TRYING and still no baby. It was all I could think about. Conceiving our first child had been an 18-month-long project, and I wasn’t getting any younger. I didn’t think I could stand the agony of another long wait. The suspense is too much! “Let’s just enjoy life in the meantime,” my husband said after I broke the news to him over breakfast that, yet again, we’d had no luck. In the meantime? I thought. And what if this never happens? Just then I heard a whistling outside. From my bedroom window, I saw three little birds perched on a tree branch, chirping their hearts out. For what? I wondered. It was just an ordinary day, and yet the trio could not contain their joyous song. Kind of like my…

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