'I thought my dream of having another child was long gone. Then a Burmese fortune teller awakened the desire I’d tried to erase years before.'
, I was so distraught that I feared I might never emerge from the abyss into which I had fallen. “The baby has no heartbeat,” the doctor had said, after a routine scan. I couldn’t process the words.
That week in the Bogyoke market, I let myself buy Zee Kwet, the ubiquitous papier mache owl pairs that I had studiously avoided for years on all my previous trips because the female of the pair was always pregnant. “To bring luck, make sure they stay together,” the shopkeeper said. “No big deal,” I told myself. But after I carried them home, nestled carefully in newspaper, and placed them on my bureau next to each other, I knew something had shifted.
I came back from Yangon that April and a couple of weeks later fell in love. I am the least impulsive person I know, but when, only a few months in, he tentatively asked me, “Do you think you might want a baby?” I leapt.
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