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"But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults."

"How do you bear it?" he said.
"We bear it as best we can," I said.

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I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.