Fast forward three and a half years, we learn that the child the girl is carrying no longer has a heartbeat, the induction process begins. On the girls twenty-third birthday, after putting up the Christmas tree, we head to hospital, with the possibility that our child may be stillborn on the girl's birthday looming large in both of our minds. As it turns out, Noah was born at 03:05 on 8th December 2008. His hands marginally larger than my thumb nail. The seven hours or so we spent with him, seemed simultaneously like seven seconds and seven days.
There are a number of songs that I could have chosen for today's post; Megafaun's 'The Longest Day' (too country) and 'You Held the World In Your Arms' by Idlewild (too shit a title). In the end I've gone with 'Pink Bullets' by The Shins, just for one line:
"your memory is here and I'd like it to stay, warm light, on a winters day".
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