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Letters

And Now You Are Nine

8 May 2010

Dear Kieran, You were born on a Tuesday morning. It was the end of April, and the weather was as perfect as it gets in Austin, clear and 65 F. I labored for 15 hours and pushed for three. Our labor nurse’s name was Elise. The doctors had told me a week before you were [...]

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To Archer Gene, 11 Months

19 April 2010

To my darling boy. You are cute. This is what I say to you pretty much every time I look at you. You’re so cute. You look up at me and scrunch up your nose and show me your little Chicklet teeth when you smile, and then you do this Beavis and/or Butthead “huh huh [...]

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To Archer Gene, 10 Months

16 March 2010

My dearest, sweetest, littlest boy, You’re 10 months old. And you love the cat. Even more? The blinds on our bedroom window. You get this HUGE grin and start hurling yourself toward the window sill and trying to climb over the pillows. We pull the blinds up for you a little. You look out the [...]

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