Chapter 15 - Benjamin Finally Comes Home
Benjamin spent twenty-three days in the NICU.
The morning he came home, Dad arrived in an old pickup truck.
I stared at it.
“You did this on purpose.”
He smiled.
“Thought Carter’s description deserved one accurate detail.”
The truck was twelve years old.
Dad loved it.
He installed Benjamin’s car seat himself, then made a nurse check his
work twice.
We drove to a small rental house I had chosen near my job.
Not Dad’s government residence.
Not a mansion.
Mine.
Rebecca helped me establish separate finances and continue the
family-court process.
I returned to work gradually.
Some nights I woke convinced I heard Carter yelling.
Therapy helped.
Time helped.
Benjamin helped without ever being responsible for healing me.
That distinction mattered.
Children should not be assigned the job of repairing adults.
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My son only had to grow.
And he did.
