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I still remember that first retrieval.

They told me they managed to get 10 eggs.
At that point, I felt… okay.
Not overly hopeful, but at least there was something to work with.

Then the updates came.

In the end, only one embryo was successfully developed.

I held onto that one.

It felt like everything had quietly narrowed down to just that single chance.
So even though it was only one, I still hoped.

We decided to proceed with testing.

And then the result came back.

It didn’t pass.

I don’t think I reacted immediately.
It was more like… a pause.

After everything — the injections, the waiting, the numbers slowly reducing —
it all ended there, with that one result.

I didn’t say much at that time.

But inside,
it felt like something had just quietly fallen away.