The Little Creature
This story is of a small creature who has been brought into the world against her wishes. She is adopted at birth and is loved unconditionally by her adoptive parents. The parents never consider her as a separate part of the family. Some other family members had certain expectations about the child the parents would raise. Maybe they hoped that it would be a boy, or hoped for a particular hair or eye colour or skin tone. None of that mattered to the parents who just wanted someone with whom to share their love.
The child isn’t exactly like her parents. I ask you, dear reader, as you try to picture the parents and the baby, to think of something that makes her different from them — perhaps she is a different race, perhaps she’s differently abled, or maybe there is something else that makes her “different” — but we’ll come back to that later. For now, use your imagination and think of a difference that may be a problem for “society” but that you know, in the deepest recesses of your soul, shouldn’t matter if two people want to care for a baby. Regardless of what you have come up with, just know that to these parents she is perfect. They disregard the difference you have just invented and hold her close. Making a unique name for their unique daughter they hug her tightly and say “We love our little baby Lamina”
