#sim: ayla

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Dear You, Always Legacy Challenge Gen 1: Letters Left Unsent - Part 4 | 7

Mia returns from Sulani with Esther, still unable to bring herself to read the letter Esther’s mother left to her. Whatever answers are in there can wait... But a baby can’t.

Back home, reality hits: Mia has no idea how to be a mother. Esther is around eight months old, and Mia spends her first days calling Marie for help and trying not to fall apart.

Her only real alone time is when her parents take Esther for a bit, which mostly means showering and crying at the same time.

Her parents are confused by the whole situation, especially the part where Mia casually came back from Sulani with someone else’s baby. They knew she loved Esther’s mother. They just didn’t realize how deeply.

Esther starts becoming more than grief in Mia’s arms. She’s calm, sweet, and eerily familiar. Every smile feels like a tiny echo of the person Mia lost, and Mia finds herself clinging to those moments more than she wants to admit.

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Her dad adjusts to having a baby in the house very fast, likely because he’s in some kind of ongoing grandchild competition with his sister, Harriet.

Louis ends up being an amazing uncle. Since it’s still summer and he’s home all the time, he becomes the second person Esther loves the most. Mia is mildly jealous because he slips into caregiving naturally.

Mia goes back to work, and it helps more than she expected. Getting out of the house, seeing people, and having something else to focus on makes her feel a little more like herself again. She misses Esther every time she leaves, but work gives her something solid to hold onto.

She also reconnects with Amira, and the two bond over motherhood, even though she refuses to shut up about Owen. Mia is both happy for Amira and quietly bitter about it. Watching someone else be loved and supported so fully while she’s grieving something permanent stings more than she wants to admit.

Esther likes Mia’s voice, likes playing with her, and is already showing how smart she is. By the end of it, they’re okay. Esther learns to sit up on her own, and Mia spends a whole weekend trying to help her crawl… all while wishing, constantly, that Esther’s other mother could have seen it too.

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ayla palma and outfits

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Family nap time

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Ayla

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Date night (the last pictures hehe)

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Date night

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Date night