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VIEWS: Family comes first for Bears' Tillman

I was pacing the third floor waiting room in the birth center of the hospital in Beaumont, Texas, wondering what I would do.

It was early on a Wednesday morning late in 2010, I was in a new state on the other end of the country and within minutes my second daughter would be born. I was in that waiting room, watching my oldest daughter, wondering what to do.

My first four phone calls went unanswered. The fourth and final option, via text, responded.

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