Woman Gave Birth to Twins The Next Morning, Tw0 Black Baby Blankets Arrived, and Her 82-Year-0ld Grandmother Burst Int0 Tears

“Mom, they’re here. They’re both here.”

“And you’re all right?” I asked.

“I’m tired. I’m happy. I don’t know what I am.”

I laughed through my own tears.

For years, I’d watched her smile at other people’s baby showers, then come home and quietly put away the little gifts she’d bought for the children she still hoped to have.