A new LIFE
Ben felt his phone vibrate and reached into his pocket to retrieve it. On the screen was a photo of a newborn, swaddled in a blanket, wearing a white hat with blue trim. Congratulations, Pops! read the message from his son-in-law.
A surge of love shot through Ben’s heart as he zoomed in on the image, his grandson’s face so similar to his daughter’s when she was born.
He swept away a tear, remembering the elation and exhaustion he and his wife Tandy had felt that day, and wished she was here to share this new life.
He chuckled at the bittersweet thought of how she would have been beside herself with happiness, no doubt twirling in circles at the news.
‘What would you do to celebrate?’ he asked, still talking to Tandy as if she were there, despite her passing almost a decade ago.
Just then, a man loading flowers into a van across the road from where Ben was sitting in his pick-up
