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I wanted to throw my head back and laugh about the ridiculousness of it all

I climbed around inside, securing the kids, who’d been kept out too late, into the car seats.

I was excited to see what “National Days” were marked on the whiteboard

It turned out today was Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Day, Awkward Moment Day, and Sloppy Joe Day.

I drank water from a friend’s bottle and then another friend drank water from my bottle

I liked that we were intimate like that. I wondered if two Americans would have done the same thing.

He waxed on about politics and the latest This American Life episode

I nodded, although at points I was barely listening.

We live in a soft house

I can tell you all the things that are going to happen today and the order in which they’re going to happen.