As Vic gets home from work, she finds a surprise in her front yard: a stroller with her favorite flowers and a note inside from her husband. Suddenly, her best-kept secret rises to the surface, forcing her to tell her husband the truth about her fertility issues. Vic risks shattering their lives together…
When I pulled into the driveway that evening, the first thing I noticed was the stroller. It was sitting on the lawn, wrapped in a beautiful bow with my favorite flowers. Yellow lilies. The sight stopped me in my tracks, my keys slipping from my fingers as I stared at the unexpected gift.
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A stroller?
My mind raced, trying to piece together why it would be there. Arthur and I had never talked about this. At least, not seriously. He had always said that he wasn’t interested in having children, and I never pushed the issue.
“I don’t know, Vic,” he said one day when we were talking about it over brunch. “I just think that I want to travel the world and go on all types of adventures. I don’t think kids fit into that equation. Maybe it’s just something that I need to get out of my system, you know?”
Of course, I knew. And that’s why I didn’t want to question him any further. I had my own reasons for staying silent, reasons that ate away at me every time I saw a mom with their baby. But still, I had convinced myself that it was okay because we were on the same page.
Or so I thought.
But now… this stroller told me that everything had changed.
