Still pregnant with Max I meet a friend whose first child has just been born. He is very keen to talk, to tell me how he felt about the birth and how he feels about his son, but he keeps breaking off to smile and shake his head.

I smile as well. ‘You never quite get your mind around it, do you?’

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Max

Meredith Jelbart

Spring 1985

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