Teenage fathers, what happened after you found out she was pregnant and what is your life like now?

Two and a half years ago, my ex called me and told me she was at the hospital and that she was ok, didn't want me to hear through the grapevine. After prying and asking her to just tell me what was going on, she told me that she was unknowingly pregnant and she had lost the baby. Thinking this was a few weeks/months things with another guy I was sad but not overly concerned, but when she said it was 8 months... My heart stopped. I rushed to the hospital after admitting to my parents that I might be the father (they weren't fully aware that we were having sex during our relationship). I held my stillborn son that night, crying, begging for him to just breathe, take one breath, and that I would give him the world if he would just be ok. His mother almost died with him that night, and though we never really worked out I still love her greatly. My father later told me that day he knew he had succeeded as a parent and that I was already the man he hoped I would be. Maybe my story isn't typical, but it is mine and it has made me who I am. I am forever different because of that little boy.

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