I regret that I did not take notes in the car when they were running through all the minor characters.

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Princess Raf waves to her screaming subjects, who are high on cake and friends.

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8:25 AM is the cranky zone because the school gates are about to close and we only live one block away and Kina is tying the laces on her zip-up docs for no discernible reason. Also, I fired our ad sales team but she keeps coming into the living room wearing my running shoes and shouting “GET NOW!!!”

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This was probably a bigger deal for Laurea than for Kina, who took it more or less in stride (at least on the first day of enforcement).

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I know better than to question our publisher’s fashion choices. It’s a process.

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I know Laurea would agree with Kina that washing dishes now is infinitely better than washing them in an hour, but I am soloing this week and I promise I washed them as soon as Kina was asleep.

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I’m sure there’s nothing important in there.

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Nobody respects the old radishes, but they are robust and useful in pickling.

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The unfathomable miracle of being alive at any time, let alone now, let alone together.

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I long for the shimmering clang of the faded Chimes of Dunkirk.

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Kina cannot possibly be expected to know everybody I’ve ever worked with and where they are moving to.

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I don’t even know if I’m spelling suss right.

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Honestly, her very understandable and natural wish to walk to school on her own, against the backdrop of everything we are doing in the world right now, is a little too much to handle. I want this for her, but I want it for every little girl on the planet. It’s just hard to separate those things, and it feels so tenuous. Maybe in fifth grade all of this will be easier.

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One a penny, two a penny.

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More news tomorrow on the whole recorder thing.

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I am just pleased that staying with us forever made the cut, but that Rao’s reservation is ambitious.

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This has been something I needed validated for a while now. A little interaction that changes a lot.

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Kina and Laurea enjoy a meat pie date for dinner as Hannah is fooled by a well-camouflaged strawberry cream pop masquerading as a hunk of steak. I’m on the plane! See you tomorrow!

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OH NO I FORGOT TO SEND THIS ON WEDNESDAY I AM SORRY

Mommy’s taken over the paper for the next three days, so it’s all speculative alien news for the moment.

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Hard to pick a favorite headline here, but it is big news that Kina and Raven crossed the street to school on their own! ROAD IS CLEAR!!!

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