No touching Baby Jesus.โ โBut weโre his parents!โ proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. โMary Beth,โ Barb Wiggin said, โif you touch the Baby Jesus, Iโm putting you in a cow costume.
John IrvingOwen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.
John Irving