The Hospital Called About My 8-Year-Old Daughter — When I Arrived, Her Whisper Exposed What Her Stepmother Had Done, and Everything Changed The Call That Shattered My Morning The phone rang at 6:14 a.m., slicing through the stillness of a bitter January dawn. I was already seated in my car, engine running, one hand resting on the steering wheel while the other adjusted the mirror. My thoughts were wrapped around numbers, deadlines, and a meeting scheduled later that day. Profit margins. Quarterl