13 July 2009

Hardwired

I remember the first word Neophyte ever uttered... not Daddy, or Mummy, or even "no!"... it was "cah"...
Mr. Loewen and the other men in the boat quickly stripped off their own shirts to warm him up, but Demetrius – wearing just a T-shirt, a diaper and sneakers – wasn't concerned about the cold.

“The first thing he said when they were wrapping him up was ‘Where's the car at?'” said Mr. Loewen, a 54-year-old contractor from Rose Prairie who happened to be staying at the same campground that weekend.
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