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    Dad of Newborn Girl Explains the Importance of Women’s Issues to a Table of Women at a Coffee Shop
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  • October 21, 2016
    Why Won’t You Kids Go to Sleep and Let Me Read Badfinger’s Wikipedia Page in Peace?
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  • October 17, 2016
    It Takes a Village of 9- and 11-Year-Old Girls to Raise My Child
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  • August 26, 2016
    Back-to-School Shopping List for Your Teenager Who’s Just Going Through a Phase
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  • August 23, 2016
    Do You Have a Child or Have You Just Been Followed Home by a Hyena?
    by Kira Jane Buxton
  • August 5, 2016
    What I Wish for My Newborn Baby…
    by Laura Lane
  • July 8, 2016
    I’m Tired of “Well-Meaning” Parents Interfering When My Toddler and I Rob a Liquor Store
    by Alex Kane
  • June 27, 2016
    Listicles For People Exactly Like You: 8 Things Stay-at-Home Moms Named Sasha Think About
    by Rufi Thorpe
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