I Had a Thing for Llamas

A story about the people who mended me

Alexandra Gaujan
ILLUMINATION
Published in
7 min readAug 9, 2020

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4-year-old me and my godparents greeting a llama in Brașov

What strange times we lived through.

Because, did you know? Baby legs never grew straight naturally. You had to tie your child’s legs together with gauze every evening and keep them tied for ten hours straight. The child would cry and fight, and grow up straight.

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