Chop chop!

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I actually tell her that I don’t believe she brushed her teeth so that she will get up in my face and gasp at me furiously with her toothpaste breath because I think it is endlessly funny.

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It is crazy that this is a thing you can do your body—paralyzing your own diaphragm—but now she knows that she will be okay. Laurea somehow never experienced this in her life? Maybe I just fell a lot.

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Mr. Kasugi is a part of this family and deserves better.

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Kina is really good at jumping rope and it is the best Spring Equinox revelation.

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p.s. True Southside heads know Milly’s is the real deal. I am legitimately star struck.

Kina could care less about the specifics of teen video games, but the names are interesting at least.

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I assumed that every adult knew about thumb war, but Kina found the one exception in Ze.

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Kina doesn’t normally remark on the quality of nurses, but this one appears to have made a real impression on her. Doesn’t mean that she’s forgiven the whole finger prick episode, but five stars otherwise, would patient again.

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p.s. Drawing noses is weird and fun.

I CAN HEAR YOU

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I think she always imagined that movie medicine was so much worse than chewable drugstore brand tylenol.

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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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