My parents cried when the doctor said, “Congratulations. You’ve got twins on the way.”

My parents cried as they decorated the nursery and decided what our names would be.

My parents cried that night when I took my first breath, as my partner in crime for nine months never did.

Sharon Ezekiel is a nurse- attorney who lives to write. Her fiction work, “The Storm Cellar” was published in Flash Fiction Magazine and her poem, ” Prelude to My Epitaph” was published in Dying Dahlia Review.