From the moment the doctor announced the baby's arrival, Dorothy's eyes were brimming with tears. Everett gently wiped them away several times before finally warning her that if she didn't stop crying, he'd take her home. That seemed to do the trick, at least for the moment.

Jeffrey and Karen exchanged a flurry of words until the doctor cto check on her. Only then did Jeffrey step away from the bedside, allowing Dorothy to lean in.

"Karen, you're such a trooper! Congratulations, you're officially a tnow." she said.

"Yeah... childbirth is brutal, Dorothy... I don't think I can go through this again...” Dorothy offered a wry smile, “Jeffrey just said the sthing." "That's right! Once all this is over, I'm getting a vasectomy!" Jeffrey chimed in, only to receive a sharp look from Karen. There he goes again, speaking his mind with elders around.

Their conversation continued, with Kenneth standing quietly in a corner of the room and watching the family's joyful reunion. Suddenly, he felt someone approaching him.

Looking up, he saw Everett.

when she went into the delivery room?" he

nodded, his response void of any boastfulness, simply answering Everett's

recalled the tense moments, "The doctor had to cout to call the family several times, issuing multiple critical condition notices. I could see the blood on the doctor's clothes. That was Dorothy's blood." The fear he experienced

enough for Everett to picture

doing at that time? After a long silence, Everett asked softly, "Got a cigarette?" "You want to smoke?" Kenneth asked instinctively before immediately realizing the

stepped out of the room with

in

two of them, one after the other, made their way to the hospital's outdoor

something was off with

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