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2021-10-05 21:00:04"How come you possibly be smiling?" Melissa asked as she broke into a smile,too,as she helped finish up the bottle.
He just shook his head and kept on grinning.
Angelina immediately settled down as soon as she started sucking on the nipple and the warm milk passed her lips.
"Hearing her cry is the worst",Colin said, situating himself on a chair in the kitchen so he could hold his daughter more comfortably without fear of dropping her.
"Believe me,I know", She said. "She sounds so pitiful".
He nodded.
"The first few weeks were awful. She'd cry and I didn't have the first idea how to handle it. I just wanted to comfort her but I felt like I was doing everything wrong. Then,I don't know, I guess I started getting more confident with being a mother", she said.
Melissa had been an only child and didn't
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