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2024-10-29 19:42:56New York, three years later.
My son's blue eyes were watching me intently.
As if it weren't three in the morning and I wasn't dying of sleep.
“Why don’t you sleep?” I mumbled regretfully, noticing that his eyes shone with joy at my misery. "No, Jake, it's not time to play, it's time to sleep."
"Maybe if you didn't let him nap so late, this would stop happening."
The air caught in my lungs when I saw my splendid wife leaning against the doorframe.
My goddess.
"I’ll start doing it tomorrow, babe. I promise you.”
But she just laughed in amusement before coming into our youngest son's room and taking him in her arms.
“You've been promising the same for months, sweetheart. By now it would be a miracle if you did.”
I marveled once more at how incredible my wife looked with a baby in her arms.
Maybe that's why we kept having more and more.
Oh, right you don't know what I'm talki
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