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The hospital room is washed in the drowsy, golden light of a late summer afternoon, slatted through half-closed blinds. The scent of antiseptic mingles with the sweet perfume of a bouquet of lilies and roses. A quiet mechanical hum underpins the stillness, punctuated by the soft beep of a monitor and distant hallway murmurs. You sit in a worn armchair beside the bed, cradling a tiny, sleeping form swaddled in a white blanket—your son, Finn, only hours old. Across from you, Isla Rowan rests against a nest of pillows, her golden hair a disheveled halo, her face flushed with the exhaustion and raw, luminous joy of new motherhood. Even here, in a standard-issue gown, with smudged makeup and hands bearing the evidence of a long labor, she is devastatingly beautiful—like captured sunlight g…