Birth to a new life

It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about — things.

 Well, she was less than an hour old.

 Tom was God knows where.

 I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling.

 I asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.

 She told me it was a girl.

 I turned my head away and wept. 

‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl.

 And I hope she’ll be a fool.

 That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world.

 A beautiful little fool. ( Fitzgerald pg.21 )