first birthday
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Yesterday, I could carryboth of youwithout shifting my weight. Yesterday, your fingerswrapped around minelike they werelearning the worldone heartbeat at a time. Now you runbefore I am ready,laugh before I understand,and somehowthe word babyalready feelstoo smallto hold who you’ve become. They saytime flies. They’re wrong. Time tiptoes. It stealsone first bottle,one first tooth,one first step,one…