08/16/2025
My 15-year-old son has a newborn — but that’s not the part I can’t wrap my head around.
When Zach texted me from school — “Can you pick me up? It’s serious” — I expected trouble. Maybe a fight. Maybe a bad grade.
But when he slid into the passenger seat, pale and shaking, he just said, “It’s not about me… it’s about her.”
That’s how I learned the truth.
His girlfriend had walked away from the hospital without signing the papers. And my awkward, still-learning-to-shave, video-game-obsessed son? He signed them instead.
“If no one wants her,” he told me that night, “I do.”
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