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Experiment in the Essay #10 & 11: Naming The Baby-- #52essays2017

March 19, 2017 by Sara Nolan in Perception, Relationships, writing

I perfected a kind of beatific, Mother-Mary smile to beam at them, like I was trying to remember exactly what sex with God had been like, a bit distracted from the pedestrian world and its nominations.  The kind of smile that is holy-but-weird enough that the original question gets deflected.  So that when I said eventually, "We don't have one yet, for a boy, if it's a boy...." it didn't even sound all that bad or bothersome.

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March 19, 2017 /Sara Nolan
writing, names
Perception, Relationships, writing

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