Mina considered President Lee's words, but she was not convinced. Sadie was their mother's princess and their father's joy, so she believed that any child born after Sadie would have been treated differently. Her sister had been planned and expected, while Mina's had thrown a wrench in her mother's family plan by arriving two years too early; in short, she was a mistake. Her very existence had taxed her parents' finances in a way that forced her father to take more hours at work, and in wanting to save as much as possible, her mother received no prenatal care while she carried. It was on delivery day that they found out the son they had hoped for was a girl.