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<p id="971a">How do you look <a href="https://readmedium.com/i-dont-feel-like-writing-a-poem-9ac050eef92e">a nine-month-old girl</a> in the eye and tell her:</p><p id="196e">“Look at me. This is all you’ve got. Better start dealing with it

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.”?</p><p id="6f3f">You don’t.</p><p id="db6d">You tell another truth.</p><p id="e248">“Hello, honey. You are almost as beautiful as I am. We’re gonna have so much fun.”</p><p id="c8cd">And then you wink. That’s my plan.</p></article></body>

Sometimes You Tell a Different Truth

Photo by Tatiana Syrikova

How do you look a nine-month-old girl in the eye and tell her:

“Look at me. This is all you’ve got. Better start dealing with it.”?

You don’t.

You tell another truth.

“Hello, honey. You are almost as beautiful as I am. We’re gonna have so much fun.”

And then you wink. That’s my plan.

Poetry
Flash Fiction
Single Father
Writing
Life
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