B Negative by Vicki Grant Page B

dad, Paddy. And Anthony, I guess, will always be Anthony. That’s just the way things are.”
    She reaches for my hand.
    â€œI’m sorry this turned out the way it did. I really am. I’m sorry I put everybody through so much—but I don’t regret it. I got you as a result and your dad did too. I hope you’ll be able to look back some day and think you were lucky. You have two fathers who love you. They both gave you a lot and…”
    She starts to cry. I don’t know what she was going to say, but I don’t need to. I hug her. She sobs for a while, and then she realizes that I’m crying too and we both start to laugh.
    â€œOops, sorry. Am I interrupting something?”
    Mom pulls away from me and wipes her face. “No, no, Tara. Come in! I was just going to get dinner started. We’re having steak.”
    I put my arm around Tara. I don’t even try to hide my tears. Neither of us is embarrassed by that kind of thing anymore.
    A taxi pulls into the driveway. Mom looks out the window. “Oh, good, John’s here. Paddy, will you call Anthony and the kids?”
    I take a breath and I’m hit again by how weird this is, how hard this is going to be, how much we’re all going to have to forgive or forget or maybe just ignore. For a second it almost paralyzes me.
    Then I hear the doorbell ring and Olivia and Marlon screaming, “Papa John!” and the creak of Anthony getting off his yoga mat—and I’m okay again. Something tells me we’ll be able to work it out.
    We just have to be positive.

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