A Baby's First Words...

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My son crawled for the first time while I was away on military service. I also missed Gabriel's first steps and was afraid I would miss his first words.

Each day, I phoned home and asked if he had spoken yet. Finally my wife said Gabriel had something to say to me. "Daddy, Daddy," I heard over the phone, and glowed with pride. Then my wife came back on the line and said, "You should come home as soon as possible."

"Why?" I asked.

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"Gabriel was speaking to the dog," she told me.

(True story :-)

Dominic Turgeon; Reader's Digest [Aust. ed.]; January 2009 



:-( -> :-| -> :-)

DL 

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"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, the wisdom to know the difference... and the sense of humor when I don't know the difference."

--Joel Goodman adding to Reinhold Niebuhr