My friend, Like Him (LH), fell in love with a young man and 6 years ago, they got married. I, along with other friends and family, celebrated with them and fully expected that within months, we would rejoice again, welcoming their first child into the world.
I recently had a baby after a 7-year hiatus. As soon as I found out we were expecting, I resolved to do everything within my power to deliver a healthy baby. In the months I was pregnant, I did, however, spend a lot of time thinking. I thought up answers to the questions I expected people would ask. I thought up rejoinders to the wisecracks and comments people would make. I planned how I would …
In the Disney animated movie “The Jungle Book,” a panther finds an abandoned baby and takes him to a mother wolf who raises him along with her own cubs. The boy, Mowgli, spends 10 years in the jungle as a member of the wolf pack. However, a tiger with a known hatred of man is spotted in the jungle, and the wolf pack decides to send Mowgli away to a man-village for his own protection. …
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