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Index
Title Page
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Epigraph
I. Chance
There was a chance the baby was normal.
II. Tails
What keeps them together is a child, the chance of another child.
The baby has trouble nursing.
Benchmarks, percentiles, milestones.
They watch the boy line up and file into kindergarten.
First smile, first laugh, first words, first steps.
Every few weeks that spring, there’s another birthday party at another fun venue.
He’s been thinking about volunteering.
III. Heads, Twice
They get the boy tested.
Second grade is a second chance.
The time comes when they can feel almost nostalgic for the boy’s childhood, the phases that pass so swiftly.
Very soon now it’ll be the Age of Games
His own father, the boy’s grandfather, begins to fail.
Winters they go to the botanical gardens to bask in the hothouse fug
It is the Age of Doctor Who.
They had to explain to the boy what the toy cash register was,
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