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\u201cI\u2019m going to be here,\u201d she told the baby, her palm pressed flat against the side of her stomach, every night before she slept. \u201cWhatever happens. I\u2019m going to be here.\u201dThe labor lasted twelve hours.<\/p>\n

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The contractions came in waves that built and broke and rebuilt without the mercy of a real interval between them, and Clara held the bed rail with both hands and breathed the way the nurse instructed and fixed her eyes on a water stain on the ceiling tile that she had already memorized and told herself every twenty minutes that she was still doing it. Which she was. Which was the only thing that mattered.<\/p>\n

The nurses were competent and kind. One of them, a woman named Patricia who possessed the manner of someone\u2019s favorite aunt deployed in a professional context, pressed a cool cloth to Clara\u2019s forehead during the worst of it and said \u201cyou\u2019re doing beautifully\u201d in a tone that Clara chose to believe because she needed to believe something and the ceiling tile was not offering much.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the baby okay?\u201d Clara asked.<\/p>\n

It was the only question she asked, the entire twelve hours, in its various forms. Is she responding normally? Are the numbers good? Is his heartbeat where it should be? Patricia said yes each time, and each time Clara nodded and returned to the work of the next contraction.<\/p>\n

At seventeen minutes past three in the afternoon, her son was born.<\/p>\n

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