Going Native, Chapter 15: Diary of a birth - Part I

"Children are more sons of the times than they are of their fathers." Marc Bloch

Nov 17, 2023

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Previously: Going Native, Chapter 14: Starring Tom Cruise

January 18, 7.30am, 2001

As we unpacked the baby clothes in readiness for the little lad’s arrival, the matron stormed in. I gave her some of my best slangy Spanish to put us all at ease but she took one look and told me I had brought all the wrong things before rooting around in our bags and runni…

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