A Stranger Jokingly Asked If I Was Having Twins. He Had No Idea How Deeply His Comment Cut.

The author and her husband finding out they are pregnant with twins.

“Hey, you got twins in there or what?” the bus driver shouted to me with a friendly wave, as he waited for the school around the corner from our house to get out.

He’d seen my round nine-month pregnant belly and made a lighthearted joke. But a shock to my chest stopped my breath where I stood.

It was late November in 2024, but my body was transported to our pregnancy four years ago when our son’s identical twin brother died inside of me...