When I was little, six or seven years old, I used to wonder where babies came from.
The story about a hardworking stork carrying them around had started to seem less plausible by that age. Moreover, our home didn’t even have a chimney! No, no, it just didn’t add up. I had realized by that time that mummy and papa were tricking me and not telling me the true story of how I came to be on this planet. So, one day, I confronted my mother about the truth. “I would be tricked no longer. Hmph!” I must have thought to myself. I remember pestering my mother till she finally gave in and told me that it was she herself who gave birth to me. That after she had married my father, she had gotten ‘pregnant’ and a whole nine months later I had come out of her tummy. Which, truth be told, sounded even more preposterous than being delivered by a stork. But since she assured me that it really was the truth, I reluctantly believed her.
I had asked her how does a person get ‘pregnant’ and she’d told me that, “After a boy and a girl get married and start living together and fall in love with each other even more, they try to show their love by making a baby.”
“But how do they show their love?” I had asked.
I remember the question flustering her for some reason and her only response being, “When you’re older, you would understand”. Heh, little did she know that I was a real smart kid. I had seen plenty of movies to know that when a boy and a girl were meant for each other, they’d share a kiss.
That’s how they showed that they loved each other.
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