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and singing along with, as we
hen I was much younger l•
drove to school. The car's windows
and I still lived at home
were
rolled down all the way.
with my parents and sib-
I announce: "Hold my hand or I'm
lings, my little sister, Rebecca, often
going
to sing ..."
would tell me I had a "sister smell." It
"All right," Adina will say, exas-
was a hard-to-define fragrance, a
perated.
"Anything but that."
1 mixture of various perfumes and fab-
Yitzhak, 5, is still young enough
ric softener and the candy I was
that
he actually wants to hold my
always eating, but it was distinct, she
hand much of the time. I love his
said. She would know it anywhere.
rough-and-tumble .smell,
My children have a cer-
which clings to my fingers
tain smell, too. It's that smell
when he lets go. He's all
you can find on most chil-
boy. .
i dren — fresh air and grass.
But these days I'm most
1 (even in the winter) and
sentimental about holding
soap and dirt and milk and
hands with Talya, who at
honey — though every child
21 months is my. baby. She
brings his own touch of indi-
holds
my
hand all the time: when
viduality to the aroma. At night,
we
go
down
the stairs, in stores, as
sometimes, I go in and look at my
we leave our home for the outside, -
children while they sleep, and I
when we jump together in piles of
breathe in their tender smell.
leaves, when we go for a walk.
I also love holding my children,
I never tire of the smallness of her
especially when I am sitting down
fingers
and the fresh, sweet smell of
as they are all getting bigger, and I
her skin. And I never grow Weary
1 am getting older. And I love to
of
the trust this gesture implies:
stroke that tender spot at and
When
you are tiny and .a grown-up
around the temple on their faces,
I holds your hand, you are safe.
where strands of hair, pure as
I hope that, as Talya grows older
pearls, fall like waves. A tiny baby's
and
reaches less and less for my
skin is my very favorite; it's so soft
1 hand, I will learn , to guide her in other
it's like touching a cloud, like it's
ways. I will listen and watch and be
almost not there.
there — close, but far enough, too. I
But perhaps my favorite parental
will
offer her words when she needs
I gesture is a much more common
them and silence when she needs
one, so ordinary we take it for
I
that.
I will tell her again and again
granted: holding a child's hand.
1 how lovely she is and how capable
My Adina, soon to.be 7, is get-
and how smart and how dear and
: ting a tad old for this. She'll hold
always safe with me she is -, always,
my hand in the school parking lot at
through the end of time. 0 -
Akiva, but she'll drop it the moment
: we walk inside the building. Every
now and then I make her hold it for
Elizabeth Applebaum
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