Cole and I knew since the beginning of May that it was going to be a girl. We kept mum about it because we were cooking up a surprise for Karim. He thought that we were going to see the doctor together to find out the baby's gender right after he'd get back from his three-week trip to London. So everytime he'd call...

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Everyone is scrambling around me as I sit under the antediluvian tree across the Guidance Councilor’s Office. I don’t mean this in a poetic way, but there really is a tree and I truly am lazing and marveling at the fact that everyone is so busy. Forecasting a writing career for myself within the next ten years, I open my Troll journal and...

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