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If You Squint...
My mother was talking to me recently about the John Edwards scandal and, as part of the paternity discussion, said that the baby in question looks "exactly" like Edwards. She seemed surprised when I said that I found that hard to believe since to me babies come in only a few varieties: tiny, plain (also called "Winston Churchill"), hairy, members of one of many ethnic groups with strong physical characteristics, and enormous. (I always think about puppies when it comes to little babies and appearances. Dogs of all breeds don't start showing real dominant physical traits for a couple of weeks after birth. For a while they all really do look pretty much the same.) I reminded her that when she came to see her first grandchild in the hospital for the first time, he was being dealt with in the hospital nursery and my husband pointed out the wrong baby to her.
We did take the right one home, I'm sure of that.
Anyway, here is a little commentary that ran in New York magazine's gossip blog on the subject, and I think you'll agree with me that, while that is undeniably a baby on the cover, it doesn't bear too much resemblance to anyone... except possibly Mr. Churchill.
Even now that both of my children are old enough to look like something non-generic, I still get people peering at one or the other of them and saying: "Now, who does he look like?" I never know what to say to that question. If I say something definitive, wouldn't it make the other person feel doltish? Happily I get the opposite, intense affiliation of one of my sons with me and the other with my husband almost as frequently.
Sooner or later, though, they'll have to separate and start looking like themselves.
posted by Elise at 1:35 PM
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