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Wordle 98: My First-Born

Word List for Wordle 98: blue   blessed   deserves   first   gasps   instant    slap   snare   dust   unbalance   ride   wings My Story: My blessed first -born son… in an instant , his heart  clutches tightly to mine. His father waits patiently for son’s blue eyes to transform to the hue of his brown eyes. (They never did; he is our only  blue-eyed child.) When I walk downtown,  my babe swaddled in his stroller, a motherly figure approaches  and gasps  at his beauty,  then asks, “What is her name?” I reply only with his male surname,  having all logic caught in the snare of a brain-freeze. Then out of her mouth  comes this, insensitive to me, riposte, “But, he’s too pretty for a boy!” This is the very first time that this happens.  The surprise of her thoughtlessness  is a slap to my face and throws me into an unbalance...