Give the random adult teachers their big giant play date!!!

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Now I kind of wish I had a nickname.

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I couldn’t bring myself to make a top headline out of the not-waving-goodbye-to-Mommy thing because it made me too sad. Tiny hands! Still tiny!

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The simple act of bleaching three inches of your child’s hair can make her look and act three years tougher.

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POV: It’s a sleepover and your parents are in the bedroom watching a show for the first time in months because you “kicked them out” of the living room so you could talk trash about fictional characters with your anime-loving friend. NBD.

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An ounce of preparation is worth a pound of not having to find Cinnamoroll later.

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Our esteemed publisher would never plant a story on our front page. The integrity of our journalism is sacrosanct.

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I don’t know how long this specific balance of independence, responsibility, and loving devotion will last, but I will take every bit of it that I can get.

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Ms Olimpio gives Mommy vibes.

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“TOUGHEN UP,” says Sassy Angel Mommy.

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p.s. You can do it.

I cannot tell you how funny it is to watch two kids in 2016 learn how to identify each other on a land line phone with no caller ID.

“How do you stop it?!”

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I couldn’t figure out how to mention the mp3 player until this back-to-NY edition. It has been her constant companion. We are all in on early morning flights home now (got back at dinner time last night, as you can see.) Just in time for our country’s latest entry in imperialist kidnappings. I am trying. It is trying, I guess, but I am holding on tight to every moment of the last two weeks to keep me on track.

Her fingers are so pokey.

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A city (and mayor) I’m proud to fly home to after this long, wonderful break in the Bay—even if Kina hates speeches.

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At least we made it to New York New Year.

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Despite asking me every twelve seconds “how many more galleries are there?” she sat with every hand-inked spread from some eight legendary manga artists to appreciate their work. Then she spent ten bucks on gashopon.

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Celebrity sighting: Spider-Man and Joan Baez yield space at register to publisher and starstruck auntie-sister.

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The slugs were an unexpected and unpleasantly squishy twist on Kina’s annual nature reserve adventure.

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Elephant seals also probably smell bad, apparently. Buff, regardless. So buff.

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Pasta Christmas continues. Do not lose faith in Pasta Christmas.

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