“Dead?” I didn’t understand. None of this made sense. “But how? Why? When?” “It’s difficult to say. My guess is that the heart stopped about a week ago, judging by the size of the fetus.” “But why? Why didn’t I feel anything when it died? Shouldn’t I have known?” How could I not have noticed that the baby—my baby had died? Because you tried to ignore the pregnancy. Because you weren’t happy about it.

