CarrollBlog

A friend just had a baby. Watching her look at the infant, I realized something I knew but had never registered before-- there is a very special expression that women with infants (in particular) get on their faces when looking at their babies. I have never seen it on anyone else, but on new mothers I've seen it frequently. Even when a woman is with her partner, the father of the child, that singular look is only for her baby and has nothing to do with him, no matter how close they are. It says at the heart of the matter it's just you and me, child. Everyone else in the world, including your father, is over *there*. There's them and there's us. Forevermore an invisible line divides the rest of the world from the two of us.
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