Seeing the future is overrated, says nine year old with her entire life ahead of her.

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I feel I have earned, after 23 years together, the right to snuggle Mommy every night. Kina will have plenty of time.

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You have never seen a human being so fascinated by an icicle or more in a rush to preserve them in their pristine state, in your freezer.

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The pasta showed up late but the expedition climbed on.

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For the record, I do know what gang gang means, and that makes me proud because I am technically not allowed to know.

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We do try, Kina. We try.

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The publisher is nine. Spare a thought for her parents, who have enjoyed this very long last year with her and are deeply conflicted about her nineness. I really did think she’d be eight forever. It took me a while to get her customary to-scale portrait to capture the tween energy that suffuses every cell of her being, but I did okay. We will be okay. Happy birthday, little bagel.

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I remember feeling this way when I was a little kid—the quiet clamor from down the hallway of grownups gossiping and laughing. Just knowing they were there and awake and alive.

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Taste is everything, but sorry, no.

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I don’t recommend hanging by your teeth while spinning 30 feet above the ground, but Kina will still appreciate it.

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It’s the mismatched tights and pastel hair extensions for the downtown lollipop crew.

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Give me three stuffies and ten minutes to improv, and I can put you right to sleep.

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This is a brilliant game, and of course Kina won handily.

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Just two tweens from consecutive generations locking up their thoughts in a Hello Kitty diary from 1990.

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Not all fighting is fighting, says Kina.

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Styles section leads A1 today.

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Breaking: the spaghetti came out before we even left the dinner table.

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If you want to learn about spies and also play the floor is lava, look no further.

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Two fourth graders alone in a photo booth at a mall in Flushing is a whole anthropological study worth publishing.

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22 minute drive is less than 7 hour drive, even if kina didn’t eat any turkey.

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