Sunday, May 6, 2012

Official teen

ACE turns 13 today. Thirteen.

It is normal for children to want assurance that they are loved. Hence I write this now for him.

To Alexander Charles Er...I've always loved you because you are our first and last miracle. You sustained us streetfood years: the first apartment in Kuala Lumpur furnished in early poverty...our first mode of transportation (our Hyundai Coupe)

You wore new and had unused grandparents. You were the original model for unsure parents, uncles, aunties, granduncles, grandaunties trying to work the bugs out.

You were the beginning. The first baby in the Er family for 20 years.


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