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Three years after a car crash destroyed my marriage, I found my ex-wife in my Chicago emergency department protecting twin five-year-old girls, one with the copper-red streak every firstborn woman in my family inherits. Elise stared straight through me and said, "Neither of them is yours, Gabriel. Stay away from my daughters." I almost believed her, until one little girl reached for my hand and Elise reacted like she wasn't protecting her children from a stranger, but protecting a secret from their father.