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## A FINAL REQUEST BEFORE SAYING GOODBYE
### An Emotional Story of Surrogacy, Sacrifice, Forbidden Love, Faith, and the Family Grief Created
**KYLIN**
I am no savior.
I could not save my husband, our unborn child, or the family members who died while I sat behind the steering wheel.
Yet somehow, I have become responsible for a dying woman's final dream.
Ruthanne Yates did not ask me for money.
She did not ask me to pray harder, cure her cancer, or promise that death would not come.
She asked me to carry the children her body could no longer create-with my egg and her husband's sperm.
And against every warning screaming inside me, I said yes.
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**RUTHANNE**
Cancer has stolen my strength, my future, and every child I once carried beneath my heart.
Now time is running out.
I know what I am asking of Kylin is unimaginable. She would become the biological and birth mother of the babies my husband and I have prayed sixteen years to hold.
But I am no longer afraid of what the church will call wrong.
I am afraid of dying before hearing someone call Rhys *Daddy*.
So I make one final request.
Give us the children we were never allowed to keep.
And when I am gone, do not let the family we created fall apart.
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**RHYS**
I have spent years preaching faith to grieving people.
Now my wife is dying, another woman is carrying my children, and the church I helped build believes the miracle growing before them is proof of adultery.
They want Kylin gone.
They want me removed from the pulpit.
They want Ruthanne's final act of love buried beneath scandal.
But the truth is more complicated-and more powerful-than any rumor.
Three wounded people said yes to an impossible family.
Two babies are coming.
One woman is running out of time.
And before Ruthanne takes her final breath, she will ask us for a promise that could bind our lives together long after hers ends.
**A FINAL REQUEST BEFORE SAYING GOODBYE** is a deeply emotional, interracial family drama abo