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Feast your eyes! Said my uncle; he was cradling the newborn in his arms.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>Goosebumps sprang over my body; he had been waiting for a child for seven years. \u201cIs it a boy or girl?<\/span>\u201d,<\/span> I asked. \u201cDon\u2019t you see that she is wearing pink?<\/span>\u201d;<\/span> he teased me. He knew how much I <\/span>couldn\u2019t<\/span> stand sexism. \u201cYou don\u2019t want me to argue against that now”, I replied. The baby <\/span>cried,<\/span> she was <\/span>probably annoyed<\/span> by her father\u2019s statement too. Her mother was <\/span>sleeping<\/span> and nurses had told us to not wake her up. Angry tears fell down the baby\u2019s face and the cry went louder. My uncle panicked and gave me the baby. I held her close and cuddled her, she stopped crying. Time stopped; it was love at first <\/span>eyes<\/span>, presumably, for<\/span> both of us.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>The moment she stopped screaming and complaining was magical. I wanted to protect her from any pain. She was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. She had the babyish milky smell; the sheets she was wrapped in smelled like vanilla, she looked soft and pure. I <\/span>felt like eating<\/span> her <\/span>plumpy<\/span> cheeks and kidnapping her for her cuteness and tenderness. I wanted her to open her eyes and see their color, but she was not able to do so. She had beautiful lips, I could see her pouting in a few months, refusing to eat or sleep. She also had a<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>full head of curly <\/span>hair,<\/span> I did not know that babies could come out with that much hair. Her small pretty hands were folded as if she was hiding something precious from us. She had a high-pitched breath sound; I was afraid she had asthma or any kind of respiratory disease, but my uncle reassured me. She had her mother\u2019s <\/span>nose,<\/span> she could have <\/span>probably inherited<\/span> her exquisite choice of perfume. I wanted to see her grow and experience everything with her.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>There was a strong attraction between me and that little human being I could not explain.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>\u201c<\/span>would<\/span> you like to be her godmother?<\/span>\u201d,<\/span> my uncle asked.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
<\/span>One year after, she got baptized; and I was indeed her godmother. She was cuter than ever in her white dress. She was playing with my earrings when the priest poured the blessed water over her good-looking hairstyle; she burst out laughing. My love for her is immeasurable.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feast your eyes! Said my uncle; he was cradling the newborn in his arms.\u00a0Goosebumps sprang over my body; he had been waiting for a child for seven years. \u201cIs it a boy or girl?\u201d, I asked. \u201cDon\u2019t you see that she is wearing pink?\u201d; he teased me. He knew how much I couldn\u2019t stand sexism. … Continue reading “Love at First Sight”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[39],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories"],"authors":[{"term_id":39,"user_id":12,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhamedtaik","display_name":"M'hamed Taik","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/28445226b8a1211c44f492f3339658d94c787b21c55d0212cb481c851c7054f9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","avatar_alt":"","avatar_decorative":"","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Taik","first_name":"M'hamed","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}