Sentence:  “Well,” he said, “if I can't have a Buick, I'll at least have a son.” / When I was born, he very quickly saw that I was a scrawny, <WSD>squally</WSD> baby girl. I was not a Buick, and I was not his son. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Producing or characteristic of loud wails.