[lit-ideas] offlist - May Day Baby -- Long Live the Revolution
- From: "Mohammad Al-Ubaydli" <mo@xxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 15:25:37 -0400
Dear Mike,
congratulations to you, to Shantih, and to Paxton Alexandria :-)
May you have many more granchildren, and here's to the great-grandchildren.
mo
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> From: "Michael Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "LIT-IDEAS" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, May-2-2004 3:15 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] May Day Baby -- Long Live the Revolution
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> As of 10:37 last night, I am become a proud new grandfather, my first. O=
h what a fitful little wad of wanting she is. Screaming and kicking the ai=
r and flailing her fists at the world, poor baby, she doesn't have a clue w=
hat's she's in for. Her mama, my Shantih, looked like she'd been run over =
by a pickup truck when it was over, but she made it through natural torture=
birth just as her mother and I had made it through hers 33 years ago (and =
2 more to boot). I guess it's not fair to say "I made it through", but I d=
id get tired of breath coaching. Forgive me if I get sentimental here, but =
I'd forgotten how cute babies are -- almost as cute as kittens. But man oh=
man, was I ever glad that she was theirs and not mine, that I didn't have =
twenty-something years ahead of me of dealing with that bellowing bundle of=
need. Mother and child are physically fine. Psychologically? I can only=
hope they've bonded. Please, dear God, bond them.
> If you want to send a check in celebration of a new human being, make it =
out to me and write "Paxton Alexandria" on the For line. I'll be sure it e=
ventually gets to her.
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> Mike Geary
> Memphis =
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