My son and my best friend’s son had the exact same rare birthmark – I thought my husband had betrayed me, but the truth turned out to be far worse.

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Then my best friend Emily had her son.

Emily had been my person since we were 20. We met in college, stayed friends through bad jobs, ugly breakups, marriages, money problems, and the long, humiliating years when both of us were trying to get pregnant, and everybody kept saying things like “It’ll happen when you relax.continue reading …