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Submitted to Contest #83
My son was born on Friday August 13th. Although I didn’t consider myself superstitious, watching the date approach on the calendar, as my wife’s pregnancy stretched past her due date, had begun to arouse anxiety. I masked this from my wife, who grew more miserable and uncomfortable by the day, hoping she didn’t share my worry over the unlucky date. On the morning her water broke, I had been home from work, not wanting to leave her side as the imminent labor hung before us like a mysterious storm we had been preparing to weather together...
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