"Regret burned, hot and familiar. He should have been the one driving Marilyn to the hospital, not some careless stranger in a dirty cab."
"The almost-forgotten melody of her voice, her very existence, knocked him off-balance, left him weak, stumbling."
"He'd imagined, so many times, how frightened she must have been, going into labour alone. How she must have felt when she realized he was, once again, absent when she needed him."
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