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Cabin end of the world5/13/2023 ![]() But she did look at them again, and often. ![]() She requested they be put away because she would never look at them again. After her dads consoled her, she calmed down and gave them an oddly formal thank you for letting her look at the photos. Wen was so upset her hands shook and the tremors spread throughout her body. Wen was unexpectedly shaken by the photos and convinced she was, for the first time, looking at her real self and this real her was gone, forgotten, banished, or worse, that imperfect unwanted child was hidden, locked away inside of her somewhere. They had a set of five pictures of her lying on her back on a white blanket, awake and her balled-u p fists hovering next to her unrecognizable face. It took some convincing, but her dads eventually acquiesced. ![]() Last fall, Wen begged her dads to let her see baby photos, the youngest ones of her that they had, the ones from before the surgeries and before they adopted her. The fissure in her cleft lip went all the way up to her right nostril so the two sets of empty, dark spaces overlapped and became one. ![]()
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