To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.