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Lola Milholland's avatar

I adore hearing it like it is! One time, I stumbled upon my mom’s diary of the first months after I was born and it was clear to me that my first smile couldn’t have come one day later! One day she was like: idk, should I get the hell away from this succubus?, and the next, like: Lola smiled!

Also, there are some perfect sentences in here, case in point: “How else would you describe the sensation, in the dark of night, of a creature with the splotchy skin and splayed limbs of a spatchcocked chicken, scrabbling up your chest to feed from your body with milky sightless eyes and paperthin, razor-sharp claws?”

Amrita Vijay's avatar

hahaha i love that your mom immortalized that moment - it really atones for the preceding weeks of sleeplessness and tedium, and as you said, not a moment too soon!

Jan Peppler's avatar

Aguri! 🌟 Meena is such a sweet name. 💗

Amrita Vijay's avatar

thank you Jan! her full name, Meenakshi, is quite traditional/old-fashioned Tamil name, and meaningful to my family; i love it

Hillary Dixler Canavan's avatar

Congratulations!! And agree: those first genuine social smiles are like when they truly become themselves 💕

Amrita Vijay's avatar

yay thanks! nothing better than the "aha" moment of perceiving one another :)

Joi's avatar

Congrats!

Amrita Vijay's avatar

Thanks, Joi!! xo

Joshua Dumas's avatar

Hooray! Congrats! Welcome Meena!

Amrita Vijay's avatar

Thank you Josh! New radio intern in training!

Mindy Isser's avatar

mazel tov!!!!

Amrita Vijay's avatar

thank you, Mindy :)