![]() None of them will come out of this experience the way they went in. Cally just wants to break out of her dead-end life, and Digger just wants to get back together with Cally-though not like this. Ruth just wants to have a baby, and Hal just wants her to be happy. Who discovered she was gone? Who first saw the room? Who took the stuff out of here? I want their names.”-while her new husband, Hal, the divorced father of two teenage boys, struggles with his own ambivalence. I want to talk to your security team, the janitors, the nurses. What follows is an epic chase through frozen northern Minnesota as the intended mother, Ruth, a no-nonsense, 40-something journalist, goes into full investigative mode-“We need to see the evidence. ![]() ![]() Ten feet up, her body still aching, she crawls onto the hospital ledge, drops the bag to her ex-boyfriend Digger, and leaps into a snow drift. In Toni Halleen’s THE SURROGATE, it’s the middle of the night during a driving snowstorm, and 20-year-old Cally has had second thoughts about the surrogate baby she’s due to hand over the next day. In my head I called her Nell, even though the contract said the intended parents would have sole naming rights…” “Hold on, just hold on,” I said to the duffel bag, willing it not to jiggle, not to whimper. ![]() As I zipped the duffel shut over her face, she was quiet as a corpse…. To cushion her, I stuffed my extra clothes in the duffel, plus the white hand towels I stole from the bathroom. “I wrapped the baby in pink flannel blankets, tightly like they taught me. ![]()
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