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The restaurant's ambient chatter died around our table, suffocated by the weight of my mother's scorn. Your hand found mine under the linen, a desperate, silent grip in the gathering storm. 'Let's be clear, he's an IVF baby,' she declared, her voice laced with a disdain that framed my very existence as a concession. She swirled the blood-dark wine in her glass, her eyes challenging the room. 'Maman, encore?' I muttered the question in French, a language you understood perfectly. 'Why, thank you for your concern, Spencer,' she replied, breezing past the sarcasm. Her focus snapped to you, dissecting and suspicious. 'How did you two meet?' she asked, her tone implying an interrogation. 'My son doesn't bring girls around. Only his little school friends.'