i moved into my grandma’s house she only lived a block away it was the summer of my senior year and i needed a place to stay she made up her spare room for me a dresser and an old twin bed it was humble but it would suffice as a place to lay my head that first night i turned in early kicked my shoes off with a sigh but i couldn’t get any sleep at all because i could hear a baby cry the next morning i asked my grandma if there was a baby in the neighborhood her face went slack so suddenly as she said it was time i understood she said i was supposed to be a twin but my brother never made it out when my mother realized what happened all she could do was cry and shout opting out of going to the hospital my mother wanted control of her womb so she decided to have the babies at home right in my grandma’s spare room