The day everything changedArrival

“Tell the story of the phone calls.”

Why this question

Who you rang first, and why them. What you actually said. The sound the other end made.

Where it leads

Those calls were the news travelling outwards for the first time. Trace the route it took.

If your child came by adoption or surrogacy

Arrival-day calls count double — the ones announcing that, at last, you were a family. Who heard it first?

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