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“Oh, Josh, she’s sick. She might be—so sick.”

He had the sensation of falling toward a devouring darkness. “How sick? Is she in the hospital?”

“I don’t know how sick. It’s in the early stages. She doesn’t know yet. Nobody knows.”

“What’s wrong with her?” Damn, his hands were shaking. His hands never shook.

“It’s a—an anemia,” she stammered. “It’s very rare. And—and serious.”

“What can I do?” He sat on the edge of the bathtub, his head down. He felt as if he was going to pass out.

She seemed to pull herself together, but she still sounded shattered. “Can you come home? I mean come here?”

“I’ll be there as soon as I can. I’ll get on the first flight out. But what can we do for her?”

“Oh, Josh,” she said, despair naked in her voice, “I’ve thought and thought. I think there’s only one thing. One thing in the world.”

“What? I’ll do anything. You know that."

She was silent a long moment. He knew she was having trouble speaking. At last she whispered, “To save her, I think we have to have another baby.”