I lost my wife the day our triplets were born—ten years later, we found a box on our porch labeled, “To my beautiful daughters. Love, Mom.”

and turned the happiest day of my life into two lives I would spend the next decade trying to hold at once.

Fatherhood.

Grief.

Both screaming.

Those first months were made of bottles, casseroles, sympathy cards, and sleep so thin it barely counted.

One minute, nurses were telling me I had three healthy baby girls.

My mother moved into our guest room.

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