She was rushed to Newport Hospital, where she underwent an emergency cesarean section and gave birth to a girl. The baby was stillborn. When Jackie came out of anesthesia hours later, at two in the morning, it wasn’t her husband at her bedside but her brother-in-law Bobby. It was he who broke the news, who held Jackie’s hand, who told her he would take care of everything—by which he meant the baby’s burial—and who made the excuse Jackie wanted to believe: Jack was still at sea, unreachable in the Med.
