My sister d.ie.d giving birth to triplets. That day, I vowed to raise them as my own children—to protect them from their father, Julien, whose dependence on alcohol had already destroyed so many lives. For five years, I was everything to them: their refuge, their anchor, the only father they had ever known. I believed we were finally safe. That Julien was gone forever. The first sign was silence. Our street had never known calm: always a barking dog, a humming lawnmower, children laughing at the

My husband said I looked like a "SCARECROW" after I gave birth to triplets—I taught him a PRICELESS LESSON. __________________________________ I'm 36F, and I thought I'd married the perfect man. Ethan (38M) was charming, successful, the kind of guy who could walk into any room and instantly have people eating out of his hand. We'd been together for 8 years, married for 5, and after years of struggling with infertility, I finally got pregnant—WITH TRIPLETS. The pregnancy nearly destroyed me. Swol