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Drabble, Elena+Octavius Pepper, 1958
For four months after his father dies, Octavius crawls into bed with his mother in the middle of the night, thumb of one hand in his mouth and fingers of the other clinging to the edge of an old baby blanket that used to be blue. Elena's throat is tight and her chest aches, empty, and she wants to be stern with him, believing so strongly in discipline. But he has his father's nose and eyes, and instead she holds him close, head tucked in under her chin as she smells his hair and feels the baby inside her grow.