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Matt Damon, Dad to six month old Isabella, (and also my pretend celebrity boyfrient - Matt is to me like Farah Fawcett in her bikini was to teenagers in the 80's) says that fatherhood "defies description, actually."The new Dad says that he doesn't know how to talk about the experience of being a Father, because he feels "like I got made a member of a club that I didn't know existed."
This really resonated with me, because I remember wondering why no one had ever fully explained the breadth of emotions I would feel with a newborn of my own. I could not believe that no one had ever described that my heart would feel like it was wrapped in an elastic band every time I looked at my son's face. I didn't know about the Secret Smiles exchanged between Moms at the mall or on the street as they gripped their children. It does feel a little like a secret society, one I'm so glad I accidentally stumbled upon.
Leave it to my pretend celebrity boyfriend to come up with such an ingenius description.
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