5 years ago...
Ellie remembered the hospital. She knew it and all the emotions that came with it like the back of her hand.
Babies, as she understood, were a good thing. They made most people all smiley and happy. Babies provided promise for a new start, a chance to wipe the slate clean and start over with a clueless cooing bundle of little human in your arms. The nurses and the doctors and the psychologists told Ellie and her parents how baby Maxwell would provide an "effortless magic" for them, as they had apparently seen this pull together other families.
"This is a new chance for you" Dr. Rind said earnestly, trying to make her words hit Ellie's father in the chest. "A redeeming chance".
"Dr. Rind, are you really assuming a premature human being will somehow change my situation? This fetus will do nothing but decrease my family's chance of survival in the new world."
Oh, how they all pleaded with her father to give baby Maxwell a chance, that just because he had an extra chromosome didn't make him any less important. Through all the arguments Ellie heard between the doctors and nurses and her parents while staring at the neat rows of babies in the special care maternity section section of the hospital (which also contained Maxwell) made her realize they were all in vain. Her father only cared about his public image; he only mindset was that of an ambitious businessman.
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Juxtaposition of the Human Heart
Ficción GeneralA family that seems to only have themselves left and are struggling to support each other through poverty, as well as adapting to life with a child with Down's Syndrome but they are not your typical poverty story, and not helpless.
