“Falling asleep with you like that, it’s the closest I’ve ever felt to someone. And it was a door, that moment. Don’t you think? We opened that door and then all the other moments cascaded in. Eating dinner at your house, just the two of us. Flirting at the movie theater. Falling asleep in your bed. Unbraiding your hair. Apartment shopping. And then, and then, and then…the park. All of that was possible because this little person, right here”—he smooths a hand over my belly—“chose that exact moment to kick. It was the most special moment of my life.”
