Its muscles were so weak that even Howard’s five-year-old body had no problems overpowering its feeble attempts to escape his hold and go crawling off to explore. Every time the little one moved on his lap, soft, crinkling, plastic sounds came from the waterproof covering on his disposable diaper. Howard found himself oddly attracted to the little boy on his lap. There was a feeling of what Spanish speakers call “sympatico”. The baby was perfectly content to sit in Howard’s lap and watch the strange, meaningless, colored forms on the TV in front of him. The little one enjoyed the odd voices that the cartoon characters had.
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