On the 29th of December, 1983, the woman conceived. But neither she nor her husband had the faintest inkling until the next week, when her menstrual cycle skipped. After tests and blood samples and ultrasounds done by the doctors, they had the official word, and they were ecstatic. The next nine months was the most hectic, turbulent, and blissful time in her life. Later, when old age would set in and the past became more real than the present, the two would sit together for long periods in the evenings, and the husband would mention that he had never seen her smile so much before or since as she did during her pregnancy.
The child was born on the 29th of May, 1984. He was a boy.