The tale of the nativity changes after you’ve had a baby. No longer is this the seasonal story of a prophecy-made-man on a hillside in Galilee. It is not the visitations of angels or shining stars or even the immaculate conception that strikes you as miraculous. Rather, what amazes you now is how, in the name of all that’s holy, Mary did it. This is a story of a young woman wading through insane government admin while hobbling more than 70 miles to her in-laws’, in the final stages of her first pregnancy, before facing an accommodation crisis and the prospect of childbirth without a health service.
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The very idea of rumbling through the night on the bony haunches of a recalcitrant donkey makes me weep
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