“I digitized our home movies a couple months ago, from that old camcorder. I sat there one night and watched them all: Dad giving you your first bath; you in your Superman pajamas, dancing around the living room; you at your first preschool, singing ‘You Are My Sunshine.’ You all sounded terrible, so out of tune. “I sat there and I cried the whole way. Then I watched them again. I cried because I could never have imagined giving birth to someone like that—so untouched by the world. That’s when I knew there was something magic that all our politics and theories couldn’t explain. That you could
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