The way he laughed when I sang badly.
The way he looked at me every morning like I was the safest place in the world.
And slowly I understood:
The world had made me afraid of him before I even knew him.
But love introduced him to me again.
Brian called months later.
He asked if I ever thought about “what life could have been.”
I looked at Matthew sleeping beside me and answered:
“Yes. Every day.”
Then I said:
“And every day I thank God I didn’t choose that life.”
Because my son did not ruin my future.
He became the reason I still had one.
And the child I almost left in the hospital…
was the one who taught me what love really means.
