“Sarah, this baby isn’t simply your little sister. Her birth is connected to a secret I’ve been hiding from you for 34 years.”
At that exact moment, the hospital room door opened.
A man around sixty years old walked in.
The moment my mother saw him, she held the baby even tighter and whispered:
“You promised you would never come here…”
The man answered:
“Margaret, we can’t hide the truth anymore. Sarah needs to know how this baby was really born.”
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I stood in the doorway of the hospital room, unable to understand what was happening.
The stranger looked at my mother as if they had known each other for decades.
“Who are you?” I asked.
He hesitated for a moment.
“My name is Daniel. I’m a doctor. And I’ve known your mother for more than thirty years.”
My mother began crying.
“Daniel, please. Not now.”
But the man approached her bed.
“Margaret, the baby has already been born. Sarah has the right to know.”
I looked at my mother.
“The right to know what? Mom, what have you been hiding from me?”
My mother gently stroked the little girl’s cheek.
“Sarah, do you remember your younger sister, Emily?”
The moment I heard that name, my heart tightened.
Emily was my little sister.
She had died 34 years earlier, when she was only twenty years old.
At the time, I was already married and living in another city.
Losing Emily was the greatest tragedy our family had ever experienced.
For years, my mother couldn’t even say her name without bursting into tears.
“What does Emily have to do with any of this?” I whispered.
My mother looked at Daniel.
“Tell her.”
The man sat down.
“Before your sister died, she was receiving treatment at our clinic. She was very young, but she already knew that her health problems might prevent her from becoming a mother someday.”
I listened in disbelief.
“And?”
“Emily was deeply in love with a young man named Michael. They were planning to get married.”
I remembered Michael.
But after Emily’s death, he had disappeared from our lives.
Daniel continued.
“They decided to preserve Emily’s eggs so they could start a family in the future. However, when Emily became seriously ill, an embryo was also created during her treatment and frozen at the medical center.”
