He Named Our Son After His First Love,Then Lost Us Both

At the welcome party for my three-month-old son, someone teased Adrian Blackwood with a laugh. "Ross? That sounds an awful lot like Rosalind. Who picked it?"

My husband glanced up from the seat beside me. "Rosalind and I picked it out years ago. Ross for a boy, Rose for a girl. I promised her I'd use it."

The whole table went quiet.

Everyone knew Rosalind Vaughn was his first love.

And I, the baby's own mother, had only just learned that my son's name was a tribute to their old romance.