“WHAT NOW?!”

Kid, having absconded to bed with Mommy, wakes up at first light with her customary surplus of gusto

Staying in other houses is always tricky at bedtime, and there are some trips when I will wake up in the middle of the night and find myself alone in bed, with Laurea fast asleep in Kina’s borrowed bedroom. This is the only way either of us has any insight into Kina’s waking dynamic, which is aggressively forward-looking, as it turns out.

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