Words cannot describe the sense of awe life offers us

By Claire van Ryn
Updated November 11 2013 - 8:01am, first published 8:00am

THERE is no moment so laden with awe as when you hold your child for the first time.  The experience is preserved in my memory like a snapshot in a photo album.  I won't speak of the hours leading up to it, but when the midwife lifted my son into my arms and his skin was pressed against mine, the world stopped.

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