White Jasmine

Jasmine's Exile 3

Author: Dr. Khawla Hamdi

I fell in love with him from the very first moment. I know, it’s strange for a mother to say this... A mother loves all her children. But I needed some time to love my children! I would gradually get used to them, then accept their appearances and feel their belonging to me... But Ahmed, I was in love from his birth. I would watch him all day, as if he were my first child. He was a small, perfectly white angel. His pure whiteness was astonishing, like a piece of ice in a hot country, and he would nurse and sleep peacefully, and he didn't cry like other babies. His presence beside me filled me with serenity and tranquility. And I needed that, to be able to face what was to come.