"What" a Note to Follow "So": Why I Am the Baroness

"What" a Note to Follow "So": Why I Am the Baroness:

I’m afraid of babies. I fear babies for a lot of reasons. ��I’m an only child with a meager extended family; I never babysat in my neighborhood; I was raised by a single mother who was more likely to take me to a dinner party full of adults than an afternoon playdate. This wouldn’t be an issue if people weren’t always trying to hand me their infants. There’s simply an expectation that, if a female of a certain age has her hands free, she wants someone to fill them up with newborn, when really, in my case, a vodka tonic andâ�¦

I wrote a little something on the Sound of Music for the Hairpin ;)