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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

There it is

Hi

I had this tiny, undernourished baby in my hand and I remember saying my prayers and thinking: "Well, there it is"

---I'm not sure what he was trying to express by these words "well, there it is"?
  

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Hi, It could be a lot of things, depending on the context. We are not even told whose baby it is, or why the person is holding it. Clive

  • Hi, It could be a lot of things, depending on the context.
  • We are not even told whose baby it is, or why the person is holding it.
  • Clive
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Hi,
It could be a lot of things, depending on the context. We are not even told whose baby it is, or why the person is holding it.

Clive
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It was an African baby and these words are told by one of the volunteers who was taking care of them.
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Hi,
Still could be many things. eg
There is the reason I came to work here.
There is the moral dilemma that this child represents to me.
There is the broken bone I was looking for.
There is the plane that is coming to take the child to hospital.
There is my lunch on the table in the corner.
There is the decision that *** must make about this child's fate.

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