My first boyfriend had a cleft lip and had to have many, many surgeries due to some complications beyond the initial ones. I loved him with a fierce love, he was one of the great loves of my life. The deformity made him who he is today - a super compassionate, loving, kind, smart gentleman. Everyone should be so lucky to be able to face the world with one layer stolen, as then you can be more easily You. I loved your story here, and your girl is ADORABLE! All kids love mustaches, what's that about, anyway?
Thank you, I think she is adorable too. I didn't mean to suggest that my life wouldn't be rich or fulfilled because of a cleft lip, it just would have certainly been different and I would have likely had more surgeries etc. Why do all kids love mustaches? Good question, I think they look like a caterpillar on the lip... maybe that's why?
Oh gosh, I didn't mean at all that you thought there would be emotional differences in your marriage, what I wrote didn't come out right. I was just remembering my first true love and realizing that it is the scars we carry that make us the most whole. :) Here in New Mexico, wherever they have those little bubblegum machines in restaurants and in stores, the kind you put in a quarter or two and get a big gumball or perhaps some stickers, they have MUSTACHE MACHINES! I kid you not. They are everywhere! They are stocked by a Mexican company, and all of the mustaches have a name associated with a famous Latino villian/hero/star. You can maybe "win" the Pancho Villa! The Castro! The Escobar! 50 cents for a stick-on mustache. When my youngest son, now 15, was yet younger, he had quite the collection.
Mustache machines? I think New Mexico just bumped itself up a few notches higher on my list of states that I should visit. I love that your son had a collection of mustaches, how wonderful.