My Fingers

This very morning I had the pads of my fingers massaged
with corn husker's lotion
and then scraped with my driver's license
(it surprised me too).

They're still a bit tender.

It seems this is the newest fingerprinting technique
performed by the Dept. of Homeland Security.


For our love of Jae-min,
we drove an hour to The City for this ten minute
torture appointment
and then drove back home again.


And because my fingers were not printing as the attendant
thought they should,
even after the lotioning and scraping bit,
the FBI may reject them and I will get to repeat this event.


She said I had dry skin.
I should "drink more water and use an alcohol-free hand cream."


Fingerprints are shaped like a rainbow
and my dry skin was causing little vertical lines and marks across the rainbows.
The FBI doesn't like that.


Who knew one's dry skin could slow down, interfere, and
completely halt one's adoption?
(They're not even that bad.
Nothing visible that states, "She has dry skin!")

Alas, until my prints are satisfactory, Jae-min does not come home.

I shall drink and I shall lotion.

For my love of Jae-min.

Any hand cream recommendations?