7
VAUGHN
I managed to wait three days before visiting again.
Not sure if Lucy and the baby would still be at the hospital, I had called there first, only to learn they’d already been released.
So I pulled the faux business card Lucy had given me all those months ago from my wallet, and I followed the address to her house.
In the span of time since I’d learned I was going to be an uncle, and therefore had another family member left on the planet, I’d been busy. I had read every pregnancy book I could get my hands on, plus new parenting books, and I’d signed up for an online newsletter to help guide me through. Then I’d grown the strange habit of buying some kind of infant paraphernalia every time I was at the store.
My entire closet was now crammed full of baby s**t.
But I only had t
