Alyssa Sheinmel

'I have never been more scared that I was the day that you were born. Not even the day of your accident,' he adds when he sees me opening my mouth to object. 'What were we thinking, bringing someone into the world when we didn't even have the wherewithal to name her? But then, there you were. My god - Maisie, you were the ugliest little thing I'd ever seen.'