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May 13, 2018
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Atlanta, GA

May 13, 2018

“Oh no! You don’t like him either!”
– My mother, to my father, on seeing his initial reaction to the birth of his first son

OK…perhaps mushy sentimentality is not my mother’s thing. 

Then again, that my first impression evoked a 10 lb rhino, with a head the size of Wyoming and a face resembling Louis Armstrong’s voice, would have ind…

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