He has a look that often attracts attention, frequently evoking pity, Auður said, particularly from old women, who sometimes pull sweets out of their pockets. What’s more, the boy wears glasses that are attached by springs to the hearing aid behind his ears and his eyes seem to almost completely fill the lenses. “I normally buy clothes for him that are twice or three times below the size of his age, mostly French children’s sizes,” Auður told me. His torso also seems oddly proportioned, an old man locked in the body of a child. Having been premature by two and a half months, he is considerably smaller than his peers. His mother had told me he wants to keep his hair long, to cover those ears. He stands out in the crowd, with his unusually big head for such a short trunk, slightly drooping shoulder blades, and a rather old-fashioned hearing aid for such a young child.
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