But even if by Christmas Evan has to help them remember the name of their first nanny (It starts with a K …), I’ll always be able to see their faces coming up through the pool’s surface, or wrapped in a bath towel, or asleep on the arm of the gold velvet chair in front of the television, and hear the sound of Martin saying Crustinsashus, or Milly saying revolting, or both of them saying Keely, and remember where I was when I opened my first Mother’s Day card and learned the one thing I do not have in common with an emu and absorbed the complete lyrics of Beauty and the Beast. I’ll know it was
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