This is My House

Imagine a young married couple, the lovely wife expecting her first child. A time for much joy and celebration. Congratulatory hugs all around. Then the world shattering as German measles spreads through her system, and the ob gym advising them to "terminate" the pregnancy due to a myriad of expected birth defects- from deafness and blindness to severe mental retardation.

The young couple, although shaken, are undaunted and resolute in carrying on the pregnancy. Ob gyn shaking his head, calling them ‘foolish’ for doing so. "Odds stacked against your baby" "How will you cope with caring for a severely retarded child??" "You must be seriously deluded."

Seven months later, her waters broke and a mad dash to the hospital. And a perfect baby boy with all faculties intact was born. 25 years later, the only freakish thing about this boy is his amazing ability with music and physics. Tops the Melbourne University Science faculty with ease and even Google can’t find an unsolvable physics question for him O_O

I stand and watch this amazing man, nervously fiddling with his suit whilst he awaits the arrival of his beautiful bride on the foreshore of the lake. He breaks out into a shy smile as he catches my eye as if to say, ‘Do I look okay?’ And yes, I nod reassuringly to him that he does indeed look as handsome as any groom I’ve ever seen.

As I watch him grin and pose for photographs with his newly wedded wife by his side, the life that might have once been lost has now come a perfect and sweet circle.

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