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“He doesn’t look like a little old man like most babies.”
That’s beautiful B&W film and natural light for you. You should have see him in the hideous pic the hospital photographer took—some hack with a digital SLR twenty times the price of my camera…moan…bitch…grumble…
[…] [Despite / because of my being born into a country in the midst of the Biafran war, a conflict in which one weapon was starvation, it was normal in the house I grew up in for us to respond to uneaten food on a plate at tea time (”dinner time” to soft Southerners) with the Counsell family catchphrase “And what about the Little Black Babies?” We still use it, in fact. Now that my sister has called her new baby “Samuel” I’m embarrassingly excited by the thought that he might grow up to have the same complexion as his sister. If he combines this with a similarly huge afro then I will enjoy referring to him as “Little Black Sambo“—until he is old enough to punch me. You have to make your own entertainment when you don’t have a television.] […]
Just gorgeous and perfect!
That’s beautiful B&W film and natural light for you. You should have see him in the hideous pic the hospital photographer took—some hack with a digital SLR twenty times the price of my camera…moan…bitch…grumble…
Ooh, precious! enjoy.
[…] [Despite / because of my being born into a country in the midst of the Biafran war, a conflict in which one weapon was starvation, it was normal in the house I grew up in for us to respond to uneaten food on a plate at tea time (”dinner time” to soft Southerners) with the Counsell family catchphrase “And what about the Little Black Babies?” We still use it, in fact. Now that my sister has called her new baby “Samuel” I’m embarrassingly excited by the thought that he might grow up to have the same complexion as his sister. If he combines this with a similarly huge afro then I will enjoy referring to him as “Little Black Sambo“—until he is old enough to punch me. You have to make your own entertainment when you don’t have a television.] […]