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He’d push the spoon away, face wrinkling. But I was patient. I was relentless. I made games of it—here comes the airplane—and slowly, painstakingly, he started to eat. A sip of soup one day, two the next. The first time he finished a whole bowl, he looked up at me with a shy smile and a bit of carrot on his chin, and my heart burst.
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