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ALSO! Credit to Stormy, for the starting line :)

Cedric was always outgoing, sporty and personable. Even as a baby, people were drawn to him...

"Oh, he is lovely!" One of his mother's many friends squeaked as they crowded around young Cedric's cot.

"Such a darling!" Another one gushed.

"And so handsome, too!" Yet another added.

"Oh, yes," still another agreed, "I am sure all the young ladies will like him very much!"

"I quite agree," his mother said with a chuckle. "But I'm a little biased," she added, smiling warmly at her son and lifting him out of his cot. The ladies crowded around her and asked if there was anything they could do for her, but she said that all she wanted was to sit down for a while.

With young Cedric seated on her knee, he gazed wide-eyed at the doting ladies around him. He began babbling as if he was telling them something dreadfully important, and the ladies all squealed and chuckled and talked back to him. He grinned a toothless grin and clapped his hands clumsily, and the ladies all squealed and chuckled again.

"Aren't you just the sweetest thing!"

"And so well-behaved!

"You're right! He hasn't cried once since we arrived."

"You'd think all the noise would upset him, wouldn't you?"

Cedric's mother smiled as her friends gushed over her little boy. She was sure that he was the sweetest, most handsome baby boy in the world, and that opinion never changed.