She has not given the gift of life, but either way, life gives the gift to her. This child has a different need than one born of womb water. Creation has worked it’s mystic, for she already is. Teng Yué did not give the gift of life to this child. But she cares, as if it had been so, after so much of her own turbulent loss.
A first mother gives life. A second must teach how to live it.


