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My Turn Again
Life After Stillbirth and Miscarriage
By Jessica Frank
thing open was a 24-hour-a-day supermarket. I looked around to make sure that no one was watching and bought two more EPT tests and threw in a FRE just for luck. I waited in line with all the other interesting people that go to a store before sunrise. They gave me odd looks, and I eyed them too.
Wouldn't you know it but two people behind me was my very, very pregnant friend, Jocelyn. She saw me sneak the tests in line and watched me pay for them without saying a word. After I paid she cornered me at my car and told me to rub her belly for luck. I laughed and did many times. I needed all of the luck that I could get.
Where to go to take the test? I was out already and didn't want to drive all the way home. McDonald's and the golden arches was beckoning me. I snuck the EPT into my pocketbook and snuck past the morning commuters and into the bathroom. I took the test, waited. After five minutes I snuck a peak. Again it looked like it could be a line, but then again, I didn't know what to think. I had two more tests left. I figured I'd give it some time.
I went to work humming "London Bridges" and "Twinkle Twinkle." I had a one track mind. I was convinced that people knew. All those coworkers who had been looking at me with sadness and pity for all these months must have known that something was different about me. I offered to do the 10:30 coffee run. I ran over to Burger King, placed my order and snuck into the bathroom with my FRE test. This time the test showed two darker lines! I think I screamed aloud. Yes! This was what I'd been waiting for. I skipped the coffee a
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