“Dear friends, Laurence and I are so happy to tell you that we are pregnant!” Ana’s email was neat, clear and informative. Honest happiness and a full bag of positive emotions could be felt in every single word written in that email.
That was three years ago, I read that email in Monterrey, Mexico. Today, I write these lines from Auckland, New Zealand. This is how the most amazing adventure of this single Mexican male started.
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| Ana and Laurence 2010 |
Ana is one of my best friends, and since she told me she was pregnant, I knew that my days as a regular friend were over. Ana and I studied at the same university, where we met for the first time in 2001. Our friendship grew stronger during the last year of university, right after we came back from our exchange program in Europe during the spring in 2004. When she arrived, Ana told me that she has met this amazing guy in Finland (he is not Finnish, he is sort of half English half Turkish, anyway).
Her eyes glowed with joy every time she was talking about Laurence, we couldn’t wait to meet the man who has stolen our friend’s heart. Finally, 6 months after Ana came back from Europe, Laurence arrived to Mexico, to the mother land, the land of the mariachis, tacos, Coronas and all the Mexican stereotypes that you might imagine (except for the one about Mexican men with big moustaches, wearing huge sombreros and riding sad looking donkeys). So we met Laurence, nice kind hearted blond guy, egg shaped bald head, skinny and transparent; we all approved. After a while they got married and they moved to New Zealand. Nine months later Ana announced to all of us that she was pregnant. When the announcement was made by her mother the entire Mexican community cheered and drank tequila in joy (sad looking donkeys included).
While I was celebrating with our friends in Mexico, Ana realized that now she had to assimilate that her life was about to change in eight months time. Oh, the miracle of life, so mysterious, so unexpected. Even though that baby wasn’t born yet, Ana felt like the most loving mother on earth (this feeling obviously followed by morning sickness).
She became the first one of my friends on her way to motherhood. Let’s put it this way, this was a big thing in my life. I’ve studied with Ana the university and wrote our thesis together. We were like brother and sister. Suddenly, she being married and pregnant changed our friendship forever. I was no longer the friend there for her, I was about to become “Uncle Luis”.
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