Five hours after his wife, Merissa, had given birth, Eric sat in her hospital room holding and, intermittently, smelling his sleeping, swaddled, as-yet-unnamed son.
As Merissa dozed, Eric realised two things with a profound certainty that brought tears to his eyes (although, turns out, he'd be wrong about one of them): 1. For the first time in his life a life in which his every decision was analysed, agonised over and qualified in some way he knew the meaning, the feeling, of unconditional love; 2. His son, his beautiful, perfect son, would be named Randy, after his grandfather
Illustration by Jim Pavlidis.
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