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Is age just a number?
Now we have lots of family birthdays (including mine) in the first 7 months of the year, and this was the conversation between GS#1, GS#3, Abi & I, around this time, last year. GS#3: I’m a big boy. I’m 4 years old already. GS#1: I’m ‘bigger’ that you. I’m 6 years old. But you are ‘bigger’ than me, right Abi? How old are you? Abi: Guess. So the boys counted all the way from 6 to 22, to cries of well done & great! And then came the inevitable question: How old are you Gaga? Me: Guess (waiting in anticipation for the long count…) GS#3 (with no hesitation at all):…
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Daughter #3
It was sometime during the Fall of 2018, when Abi, our youngest, who lived on campus, and studied at the university where I worked, decided that she needed a haircut. And this text exchange happened, in the middle of a hectic work day for me. Abi: I’m not going in to class today. Can I borrow your car? I need a haircut asap. Me: I don’t have my car today. I have *dad’s BMW. Abi: Ugghh! Tomorrow?Me: I’m off tomorrow. I really don’t have time for this. Can’t you go next week when I have my car? Abi: Oof! You’re literally ruining my life!!Me: You know, no one’s died ‘coz…