''I had a strange dream last night. I dreamed that you had a baby without ever having had a round belly and that everything was going back to normal. Mom was so happy and so are you. You were crying with joy. We had our baby and he looked so much like me that my mom kept saying, we're going to name him Jimmy too. But it was just a dream.

My heart beats a thousand an hour hearing him talk about this dream that echoes in me and I only think of one thing. The hope that I felt in my heart while reading the few lines of the...