Every night, Leif chooses two books from his little bookcase. Yesterday, he pulled out a book we haven't read in awhile called
When I Was Born.
I always cry when I read it. I think about Liam.
I think about everything he would be. All he should be discovering with his brother.
When I was born
I had never played with stones or got muddy hands.
I had never made tunnels in the sand.
My hands had never touched anything except each other.
When I was born
I did not know there was a sky
or that the sky could change
or that clouds were so beautiful.
When I was born everything was new.
Everything was about to start.
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When I was born by Isabel Minhos Martins