Manin had just returned from eye surgery when Nala, his sister, started staring at him.
She never looked away from his face. She squinted the same eye he did, imitated every gesture, every grimace, as if she were studying the manual on “how to be Manin” in real time. The video went viral and filled the comments with laughter: “Guess who I am, Mom?”, someone wrote, imagining Nala’s voice. Others didn’t find it funny as quickly and worried about the scar left by the surgery.
The guardian of both had to explain that Manin had a genetic condition affecting his eye and they had to remove it, but he is recovering well. Meanwhile, Nala still has no idea: to her, she’s just playing at being her older brother.