The second story was utterly lovely. I loved everyone else's reactions to Miko's silence, and her quiet understanding.
Miko knows that her silence is often misinterpreted. To her father, it meant modesty, and many people believe she is shy, and there was an American doctoral student she dated in grad school who once told her, "You're too in love with thinking to care about talking, aren't you?"
None of this is particularly the case. Miko just experienced a disappointment with words early in life, the way they never quite match up to what you see or feel or imagine, how hard it is to say even a fraction of what you mean, and she's not put much faith in talking since.
Those two paragraphs are just perfect.
The birth was fun, too. Carson with the baby dropping was priceless, and John and Rodney's reactions throughout were spot on.
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Miko knows that her silence is often misinterpreted. To her father, it meant modesty, and many people believe she is shy, and there was an American doctoral student she dated in grad school who once told her, "You're too in love with thinking to care about talking, aren't you?"
None of this is particularly the case. Miko just experienced a disappointment with words early in life, the way they never quite match up to what you see or feel or imagine, how hard it is to say even a fraction of what you mean, and she's not put much faith in talking since.
Those two paragraphs are just perfect.
The birth was fun, too. Carson with the baby dropping was priceless, and John and Rodney's reactions throughout were spot on.