The day everything changedArrival

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Where does the story start, for you?

Why this question

Not where the textbooks say it starts. The moment you point to when you tell it — the curry, the hospital bag in the boot, the midnight phone call.

Where it leads

Start there. The story is yours to begin wherever it actually began.

If your child came by adoption or surrogacy

If your child arrived by adoption or surrogacy, start wherever your day of arrival began — the journey, the doorway, the room where you waited.

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Rather say it than write it?

This question lives in the Save These Days app as a one-minute voice prompt — answerable one-handed, while the baby sleeps on you, kept on your own device.

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