Veronica, Happy 20th Birthday! 2024
When you were born
It was a very special day
Your daddy was in the operating room with me
I was draped with green surgical sheets
A blinder from the chest down so I could not see my legs
They cut you out of my body
They brought you to me since I was on the table
To show me your precious face
I kissed your salty lips
I will never forget the taste of amniotic fluid
You were so beautiful with your full head of hair
Fury back and fury shoulders
The smell of newborn radiated from you
So clean, so pure.
Already a beauty queen
Born beautiful
Still beautiful
We were so fortunate to give birth to you.
As you know most our babies did not make it.
You did!
Now Jamie would have a beautiful sister to love too.
I love you, and your dad loves you too.
I would like to believe he is your Guardian Angel now, forever.
Love your Seahorse Daddy, Vader
May 11th 2024
Dedicated to you, our beautiful daughter, Veronica.
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Jamie, HAPPY 23rd Birthday!
You were our first to make it. Please, never forget how special you were to us as first-time parents. We now had so much responsibility. We loved you so very much. You were planned and wanted. We moved to give you a better life. Little did we know a home is more than where you geographically live. A home is where the heart is, and with you in our lives now My heart grew in ways only a parent can understand. To hold you the first time. You were like holding an Earthbound angel. Your eyes so pure, dark, and filled with wisdom. Yet, you were this vulnerable newborn. My life had a new purpose. I made you my everything. Your daddy worked hard for us both so I could be at home with you. Even then, I was so disabled. I could not work like a typical person. But I worked for you. To raise your attachment parenting style. Definitely a welcomed full-time job. But I could sleep when you slept, so it worked. You are a man now. We look similar now. Your dad is gone now. Who would have ever guessed, I would be your only living dad now? He is so proud of you. I am so proud of you. Please don’t let this brokenness destroy you. You have so much potential now. Hold that truth and bloom. Into what you were sent here to be. You are so very Loved,
Vader – A seahorse, dad.
By Anunnaki Ray Marquez May 23, 2024
Dedicated to our Son, Jamie, on his 23rd Birthday – his favorite number.
Poem: A Gestational Father on Seahorse Day!
My TEDx: “Born Intersex: We are Human!”
~.V.~
Mx. Anunnaki Ray Marquez 