My mother recently bought my father a bottle of
1985 Wine for his birthday. I thought that it was a really nice present but was puzzled as to why she would buy a bottle of
1985 Wine over any other year. She told me then a secret that she had never told me before and said that in 1985 they had lost a baby that I did not know about. She said that since then they had always tried to keep this year in their minds at all times so that they would never forget the little brother or sister that I could have had. She told me that she thought a bottle of
1985 Wine would really be a poignant reminder of their lives together on my father`s birthday. I was really shocked at her news but, I must say, I found it extremely touching that she should want to do this for my father all of these years later. I was also really interested in learning about what happened all those years ago and how she must have felt to have lost a child in that way. However, my mother said that my brother and I had more than made up for her loss over the years and that both her and my father felt absolutely blessed that they had been given children like us.
