booties

In the first photograph ever taken of me as a baby, at the hospital, right after I was born. I'm wearing these booties. I still have the photo. Im a winter solstice baby, Dec. 21st, almost a Christmas baby. The nurse who worked at the hospital, whose name I'll never know, knitted them for all the new mothers. Red and green, holiday colors. Gender neutral. And every year after my mother would hang them on our Christmas tree like ornaments, instead of a star. Now I can't even fit my big toe in them.

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