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just trying to make the most of those

last, precious moments.”

Kate unwrapped the boy, whom

the couple had already named Jamie,

from his hospital blanket and or-

dered David to take his shirt off and

join them in bed. The first-time

parents wanted their son to be as

warm as possible and hoped the

skin-to-skin contact would improve

his condition. They also talked to him.

“We were trying to entice him to

stay,” Kate told the Daily Mail. “We

explained his name and that he had

a twin that he had to look out for and

how hard we had tried to have him.”

Then something miraculous hap-

pened. Jamie gasped again—and

then he started breathing. Finally, he

reached for his father’s finger.

The couple’s lost boy had made it.

“We’re the luckiest people in the

world,” David told To d a y.

Eight years later, Jamie and his sis-

ter, Emily, are happy and healthy. The

Oggs only recently told the kids the

story of their birth. “Emily burst into

tears,” Kate said. “She was really up-

set, and she kept hugging Jamie. This

whole experience makes you cherish

them more.”

Emily (left), Kate, (center), and Jamie

Dayle found this photo of

her and her daughter from

Christmas Day 1987.

Photo from Heaven

reader miracle My daughter and only child,

Talena, was killed by a drugged driver in 1994.

It nearly destroyed me, but I kept going somehow.

I had a favorite picture of Talena from when she

was about three—Christmas Day, me sitting on the

floor and her sitting on my lap. The bond between

us was so beautiful. Somehow, I lost that picture

after she died. A few years later, on Christmas Day,

I opened a book and found the photo inside.

I know she sent it to me as a present from heaven.

—Dayle Vickery

orange park, florida

Reader’s Digest Cover Story

72 dec 2018 )jan 2019

from top: courtesy dayle vickery. courtesy kate ogg