She needs to charge her battery on the rocks for thirty minutes after every chilly dip in the waves, but this year is better than the last two, in that she is at least not screaming for an hour when she gets out this year.

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How did she get from princess dresses to this?

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Otis is about the same age Kina was when she started this project with me. She knows a lot about preschool, but only the first four months of it. After that, it was all a blur.

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It’s cold, yes, but you get used to it. Warming up will be much worse.

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I’m not saying it’s fall, but we are in Maine and the sweatshirts are out and the locals are lighting bonfires.

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Kina has been jonesing for a substantial shortening of her hair since she noticed how many anime icons have chic little bobs. Laurea and I gave her a 30% chance of freaking out when she saw just how much hair she’d taken off, but we got lucky—she loves it.

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It is factually not fall, but I get where she is coming from.

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The friend group is shattered, in both senses of the world.

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p.s. And congratulations to all of you for reading the actual news of today’s paper on its official publish date. The journey was worth it.

The dinosaur carries one post it note at a time and moves very slowly and often gets stuck. Like me.

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You will see tomorrow that the break in razzing did not last long.

(I think this means we are pretty much caught up! Thanks for coming on this two-newsletters-per-day journey with us!)

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This was, to be clear, also parents’ first anime con, and it was a real doozy. Took ninety minutes sitting on a random bench outside Hudson Yards just to get my pulse back down.

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She is totally fine cleaning up other people’s messes… for a price.

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We all have to learn about the perils of shallow emotional context and arguing with people by text message eventually.

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There is something so bad-ass about this headline. Bringing that energy to 2025.

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I don’t find this weird at all, but I have lived on a major Brooklyn-to-Manhattan thoroughfare for over 20 years myself.

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Yikes! Sorry about that last send—I’m playing around with a new way to send the emails and that clearly didn’t work. Here’s one with the actual image! Enjoy! I promise I won’t do that again!

As they confront a string of 10pm “Game Nights”, Mommy and Daddy issue strong guidance regaring being in bed by 8:20

As her bedtime grew later and later, it crept deeper and deeper into my evening relationship time with Laurea, which I believe was intentional.

As her bedtime grew later and later, it crept deeper and deeper into my evening relationship time with Laurea, which I believe was intentional.

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Kina’s question was probably more like what teacher she would have for fourth grade, but I think the fundamental mysteries are also in play.

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I remember being exactly like this going into fourth grade; it is extremely weird to know yourself better as you look at a totally separate human being.

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We have been talking about this possibility (with Hannah) for years, but this is the first time Kina has raised it with us directly. I can’t quite process it—and clearly none of us can, entirely.

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