I have two toes stuck together in both feet.
Kids my age would come up and ask me about them when I was young.
“Get surgery. Pull those toes apart,” people would tell my parents.
I hated wearing sandals for a long time.
I used to wear sneakers or anything that didn’t show my toes.
Baba, may he rest in peace, taught me to answer back to people with, “This is how God created me. Show me if you can do better.”
I slowly started to like them.
I’m an adult now and I marvel at God’s creation.
God graced me with two girls that are the complete opposite of each other.
I think they’re angels on earth.
They’re beautiful and elegant, a marvellous creation of God and a gift to me.