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In this season of celebrity babies, with the coming of Baby Suri, Tom and Ka
In this season of celebrity babies, with the coming of Baby Suri, Tom and Ka
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2023-12-21
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In this season of celebrity babies, with the coming of Baby Suri, Tom and Katie’s new addition, and Gwyneth’s Baby Moses and the imminent arrival of Baby Brangelina, I can’t help wonder how these parents handle the insatiable public curiosity about this most profoundly personal event, as they head home from the hospital, in Tom and Katie’s case, to find seven satellite trucks parked outside, and a lemonade stand. We are used to beautiful weddings being celebrated in the pages of People and In Style, and ugly divorces scorching the pages of the tabloids. But there is something so different about childbirth that it makes me wonder whether, just this once, the famous parents should crawl into a very private hole and pull it in after them, rather than sending Diane Sawyer an e-mail telling all about it. (Maybe this is one reason Angelina Jolie was heading off to a secluded resort in Namibia as her due date approached.)
A wedding can be a beautiful and blessed day; but the most perfect romance scripted into the most storybook ceremony does not have the spirit of raw astonishment that childbirth has. You are in control of your wedding; you have planned and listed and catered and crafted every detail, and if you are a celebrity you have the help of an army of event planners to make sure that the cake rises and the willows weep and everything goes according to plan.
But you can’t do that with childbirth. You can eat right, practice breathing, prepare the nursery, try out names, pack the hospital bag with non-slip socks and lollipops (to keep your mouth moist) and tennis balls (for a counterpressure back massage). But this is mainly about creating the illusion of control. Once it starts, once the contractions begin, once the baby launches towards delivery, the momentum heads in the opposite direction, towards mystery, not management, and chaos, not control. However calm the doctors and however smooth the delivery, this is still a moment to marvel. It is when you feel both most unique, as though you are the first person ever to have done this, and most united with everyone else, because people have been having babies as long as there have been people. The very ordinariness of the experience is one of the most extraordinary things about it.
And then you are left, belly tender, breasts leaking, veins visible from the effort, sweaty, exhausted and astounded at what you are holding. Where did YOU come from? Who ARE you, you ask this very small human, who has been living with you, in you, for the past nine months and yet who now seems suddenly so new and alien and separate, her own body, her own soul. Hello. Nice to see you. Let me sing you a quiet song.
There can be few more precious or private moments than this. It is not a natural place for strangers to enter, or press handlers or paparazzi. For just a little while at least, you would think a brand new little family would want more than anything to be left alone and be mammals together and feel safe, protected. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have the world waiting right outside.
Maybe by the time you’ve lived under the lights this long you are used to it. But nothing can really prepare you for what it feels like to walk into a hospital as a patient and walk out as a parent. It makes a normal person feel like a celebrity: I’ve just done this incredible thing. I wonder if maybe it also makes a celebrity feel, just once, strangely normal. [br] The purpose of the second paragraph is______.
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A、to describe the superlativeness of weddings
B、to be a prelude to a dramatic contrast between a wedding and labor practice
C、to explain why Angelina Jolie was heading off to a secluded resort in Namibia
D、to be a summary of the article
答案
B
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