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Mariana Blake never expected the most terrifying words she would hear after giving birth to come from her nine-year-old daughter.
“Mom, please… don’t bring the baby home.”
At first, Mariana thought the pain medicine had twisted Valeria’s words into something impossible.

She was lying in a private maternity room at St. Catherine’s Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, exhausted after four hours of labor, while her newborn son slept against her chest.
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