While she was gone, I stayed in our quarters working on unpacking and arranging things. I used the box cutter to open one of the many boxes and started taking stuff out of it. It was a box we had stored while we were in Germany. About halfway down, the was a small wooden box I hadn't remembered seeing before. I put it on a stack of boxes and opened it. My life changed forever.
It contained a small stack of envelopes with a pink ribbon around it. I slid the ribbon off and picked up the top envelope. It was unsealed, so I opened it. Inside was an official document with the title 'Certificate of Live Birth' printed across the top. As I looked at the document, my mind started to fog up. It said that a 7lb 6oz baby girl who was 19 inches long was born alive and it gave the date. It was the sam
