Adam Cain, the eighteen-year-old son and only child of Reverand Calvin and Eva Cain of Wisful Vistra, Iowa, had reached College Age and was overjoyed at being accepted for admission at Michigan State University. His religiously dedicated Evangelical mother had home-schooled him for twelve years before he attended the local Wistval Vista High School.
His upbringing had been a combination of parental love, accompanied by a strict and, mandatorily admonition, that human acceptability is reductively and synonymously defined as “White,” “Christian” and “American.” All others were, to quote his father’s frequently and ubiquitously utilized noun, “An Abomination!”
In Adam’s few years of attendance at Wistful Vista High School, he became aware of the grievous error of his parental reductive perceptions and, by degrees, despised the very sound of the Cain familial household word, “Abomination.” Among his transformative and enlightening experiences, he had developed a close friendship with two brothers, Lenny and Larry Plotkin, fellow members of his High School Basketball team and close personal companions who were Jewish. He had grown to experience sheer frustration in his subsequent attempts to alter his parents (especially his father’s) coarse denigration of other human beings not American white or Christian as “Abominations.” In the few years before leaving home to attend college, his father’s frequent use of that word became a source of irritation and often frustrated him. He became impatient to leave for college and be relieved of the hated epithet. Indeed, Adam firmly decided not to replicate the traditional practice of college students’ home visits; even for Christmas; the latter being the zenith of the family’s religious observances. As time went on he ultimately resolved to attempt to entirely eradicate the memory of his errant parents from his consciousness.
One late afternoon during the first semester of his second year of college while having lunch with two of his college buddies, he felt hit by a bolt of lightning and dropped his forkful of food onto his plate, when he espied an especially attractive female student gracefully carrying her tray of food to her table. He soon learned from one of his fellow diners that the name of the beautiful coed was “Myriam.”
Despite a lifetime of innate shyness, Adam, virtually mesmerized, could not restrain himself from impulsively standing up and in a dream-like robotic fashion, carrying his food tray to the nearby table solely occupied by this beautiful apparition. He bravely, albeit tremulously, introduced himself and then diffidently requested to join her at dinner. She pleasantly and smilingly consented. Unable to take his eyes off her, the stricken Adam nervously sat down, observing that he had never seen such beautiful eyes. It took a few moments to empirically realize that her skin was as black as rich natural ebony.
Over their joint dinner, Adam learned that she was a foreign exchange student from Ethiopia studying computer science and, that she was a (Felasha) Jewess and the only child of parents her father an academic and a soils engineer, her mother a schoolteacher. While appreciating her excellent facility in the English language Adam haltingly replied that his undergraduate major was chemical engineering and a resident of the State of Iowa. To Myriam’s inquiries about his parents, Adam surprised himself by haltingly, replying that they “were deceased, having both been tragically killed by flying debris during a recent tornado.” At the end of dinner, Adam politely thanked Myriam who made his heart jump hurdles when she lightly kissed him on the lips,
To condense five romanticly happy and successful years, we would relate (a) that Myriam came to love Adam and the lovers moved in together in campus housing (b) both graduated and secured employment in their field of study (c) leased an attractive apartment with a river view and happily married by the City Clerk of Lansing Michigan. After a period of marital bliss, Myriam, on a relaxed Sunday morning, advised Adam that she had confirmed her suspected pregnancy and that their child was to be born in the next seven months. Adam was overjoyed to hear the exciting news and in the following months of Myriam’s pregnancy, was beside himself in finding ways to make her “rest, eat properly,” take off time from her employment, not climb steep staircases, visit with her obstetrician, lavishing gifts on his dark-skinned Aphrodite, and kissing her growing belly in a continuous state of euphoric joy. Early in Myriam’s pregnancy, they learned that the child was male and mutually agreed on the classic biblical name, “Abel.” Both loving parents looked forward, impatiently and happily to the arrival of the fruiuts of their great love, little Abel. In fact, Adam often experienced difficulty falling asleep, preserverating on the anticipatory joy of the arrival of the predictably beautiful baby.
One Saturday morning, Myriam excitedly advised Adam, that “her water broke,” and appeared to be in the early stages of delivery. Adam, breathless and in a high state of (and with an unidentifiable feeling of mortal panic) speedily drove to the Maternity Hospital, inwardly noting that the day was sunny and clear, before recalling his age-old resolution to eschew the concept of “omens,” prevalent in his Evangelical childhood. He had previously notified the obstetrician and on arrival, after ignoring, a small, dark, incongruous cloud, hovering over the hospital, deposited the lovely, extremely pregnant, Myriam, to the care of its staffa nd found a seat in the waiting room to, impatiently, await the glorious event.
After approximately three hours of nervous anticipation, three cups of weak vending machine coffee, and a brief, inexplicably troubling nap. the obstetrician, Dr. Matthew Gabrial, arrived to heartily congratulate him on being the proud father of a healthy male baby and the husband of a healthy and beautiful wife. Adam rushed to Myriam’s bedside, marveled at her eternally, beautiful but sweaty face, and kissed her several times with great excitement and loving gratitude.
Just as he was about to enthusiastically ask the visibly fatigued, but content new mother for the whereabouts of their newborn son, Abel, a Nurse carried the happily gurgling infant in, unwrapped the swaddling clothes, and gently handed “Abel” to Myriam for nursing.
At first, Adam ecstatically marveled at the sight of his new, beautifully formed son, Then an uncontrollable change came over him, as he took particular notice of Abel’s light brown skin, he felt a lump in his throat, deep pain in his stomach and to the great shock of all present (conceivably, also himself) uncontrollably and. in a loud voice, eerily reminiscent in tone to that of his father, declared the ultimately judgmental term,'”Abomination! “
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