Ode to My Middle

You were everything the others were not, starting with "Planned."   You were small-ish, quiet, and suffered my return to the hospital AFTER we came home with the sort of calmness I can't attribute to your older sibling.   As you grew into your personality, it became clear, you were, kinda, "me."   You know they say "may you be blessed with a child just like you..." And I was.   You are pretty, independent--- pretty damn indepedent -- in a way that I recall I was, once freed from high school.