My day contained all of these things

Building a chronology of my day from the following list is not recommended. I wrote in the order that things fell out of my brain.

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Link sat up straight in his chair facing the teacher across the table. They were both smiling at the joke Link just made. It was the third teacher we'd spoken to in the chaos of junior high parent teacher conferences. I watched my son with his confident gaze and smirkish grin, startled to see him so obviously in his element. The time I spent worrying that h...