“They really are! That’s what everybody says.” She held her daughter tight in her arms and looked up. In the darkness of spring, something had burst open. “Everybody says so. ‘You must be so happy,’ ‘You’re so lucky,’ ‘She has your eyes.’ But she doesn’t! She’s always crying! I can’t even get a good look at her face. Well, when I was with my parents, and my mom was holding her, I kind of thought she looked like me. But since we came home? Nothing but crying. She’s always crying. She sleeps sometimes. Just for short stretches, but she sleeps. And that’s when I need to wash her bottles. They
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