I saw her spread her wings and flap them experimentally. She rose off the ground and hovered for a moment.

The truth of it struck me. She was growing fast and she was getting more independent every day. I’d promised not to hold her back, so I had to let her grow at her own pace.

“Fly back to me, Baby,” I called to her.

“If you start to fall, spread your wings and glide down. Do you understand that word?”

“You changed your mind,” she informed me as she jumped.

Hannah practiced flying over the pit all afternoon. She started out mainly just gliding from one ledge to another. Soon she had reached the bottom and had to fly to get back up. I just sat and watched from the top, calling out encouragement.

‘m hungry, Mama,” she cried when she was still halfway down in the pit.

feed, then,” I

wailed, throwing a mighty tantrum below

N G E L A ‘s L I B

I said to the

there?” the woman asked

climb down and then stumbled. The woman seemed pleased Hannah had flown. The fact she had practiced afterward also made the

She was hungry and angry. She made horrible sounds at the other

the woman said before she

sat and held my daughter as she started to nurse. She quieted quickly,

you just made,” I said

and continued

next time we should find a place that you could get out of easier,” I

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