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  • The Crumbs Will Be My Undoing

    Megan Cottrell November 2, 2020 essays

    By Megan Cottrell. There are so many big things when you're a parent: how you're going to discipline your kid, what you're going to feed them, where and how and when they sleep, where they'll go to school, if you'll raise them to believe in God or Buddha or the great spaghetti monster.

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