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Certainly it has robbed me of the old pleasures of having a cold

You know them. The languishing parts

Jean
Oct 23, 2019
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The baby is sick and so am I, and I’m not going to make a joke about Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy because that would be in poor taste, but every time he wails his sick wail I think: I have a headache, you probably have a headache! and then I wonder if I am an incredible amateur diagnostician or just projecting my own suffering upon him. Don’t worry, i…

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