Note sull'episodio
The wish put on its working clothes faster than I had expected, and the working clothes were not romantic. They were forms. A great many forms, and a telephone call to an office, and then another office, and a list of documents to assemble that ran to a second page, and the slow dawning understanding that the beautiful thing we had decided in an empty room was going to have to be born, like most beautiful things, through a long corridor of the unbeautiful — through certificates and clearances and references and the patient machinery a society builds, rightly, around the question of who may be given a child. I want to be fair to the forms, because my first instinct was not to be. It would be easy to paint the paperwork as the dull enemy of a beautiful impulse, the state's grey hand laid...
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