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“Not sure if anyone was …” Susan said, “I was a little busy.”
That’s when Behr realized she was dressed in a robe, over a hospital gown. “You had him?” Behr asked.
“He wouldn’t wait. I went into labor while you were under. Dr. Bezucha has privileges here, and he came.”
“And I missed it.”
“You did. Won’t say you didn’t miss a lot, but I’m sure it wasn’t pretty.”
“You okay?”
“Yeah. I am.”
“And how is he?”
“He’s unbelievable,” she said. Behr couldn’t lift his head to see. She wheeled a clear plastic bassinet around the foot of the bed and close to him. In it, like a cotton-wrapped doll, was the baby, with a furrowed brow and his pink nose peeking out between a swaddling blanket and tiny watch cap. She lifted him, his eyes closed like a kitten’s, and showed him to Behr.
“Your son,” she said, with the first smile he’d seen on her in weeks. “Weighed in at eight-eight, so thank god he didn’t wait any longer.”
“Kid’s a light heavyweight,” Behr said, hardly recognizing his voice for the mystified joy in it.
“So, Frank Junior? Little Frankie?”
Behr, feeling as weak as he ever had in his life, shook his head with all the force he could muster. “No. He’s gotta do better-be better than me.”
Her eyes brimmed with tears as she held the boy up to him.
“Then it’s Trevor, because we wanted to go with a ‘T,’ ” she said. “And Frank is his middle name. Don’t even try and argue.”
There was so much to be strong for and to protect. With effort he reached out and touched the tiny fingers in front of him and held them for a moment, before his arm tired and fell away. The baby woke then, and Behr’s head sank back onto the thin pillow as he stared into the eyes of his son.
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