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One Decade

Hi Aaron, Today, we're celebrating your 10th birthday.  You won't be there, just as you haven't been there for every birthday celebration we've held for you.  It's just hard to believe that 10 years have passed since that hectic late-evening ambulance ride to a hospital I'd never heard of to watch you be born 14 weeks too early. I'll never forget the peculiar mixture of terror and excitement that took up residence in my gut when they told your mother and I that you would need to come now .  Excitement, because I would get to meet you so soon.  Terror, because I'd be meeting you too soon. There are so many crazy stories that came out of that night, and the weeks that followed, surrounding you, your mom and I, and the rest of your family.  But one of my favorites is the one about the moment I truly became a father: We'd already changed your name earlier in the evening - as far as the doctor knew, he was hard at work delivering Owen into the wo