Chapter 6After our wedding, and with Cathy not having much time before she and Lexi left the country, my cousin’s eggs were harvested, a surrogate selected, and the procedure performed. Then we saw her and her girlfriend off at Dulles and promised to call as soon as we had good news.
Now it became a waiting game. I made everyone promise not to call us about it—as soon as we had good news to share, we’d be on the phone to the whole family.
October passed with no pregnancy, with the same lack of results for November.
Christmas broke my heart a little. Theo had bought all manner of things for the little one we hoped would eventually be part of our family. I spoke to Cathy earlier in the day—if we waited until after dinner, it would be two the following morning Rome time—but had no news to
