when Juno was three weeks old, cranky and colicky, I was up in the middle of the night, pacing through my parents’ living room trying to soothe her, mindlessly scrolling Instagram reels to keep myself awake. A video of Alec popped up, an interview in which he talked about his favorite parts of the game. It was only four minutes long, but something about the tone of his deep voice must have soothed Juno because she settled as soon as it started and stayed quiet until it ended. When I scrolled onto the next video, she started fussing again, so we went back to Alec. It worked like magic. Three
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