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The joys of motherhood

Christina Sayut | Friday, November 17, 2023

I have had the pleasure of being born a younger sibling. As everyone knows, being the youngest sibling comes with the most responsibilities. You have to be the funniest, coolest, prettiest and overall best member of your family, which is a lot of pressure. I had been the baby of my family for a long

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We were babies once … and dumb

Mike Donovan | Friday, May 15, 2020

We were babies once … and dumb. If we’d been left alone, we would’ve hurt ourselves. But no longer. Now we are adults … and smart. Yes, there was a time when we were babies. When we got hungry, we wouldn’t make ourselves sandwiches. We would just cry until somebody brought us food. We were

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Babies are dumb

Mike Donovan | Thursday, April 4, 2019

Babies are dumb. If you leave a baby alone, it will probably hurt itself. If a baby is hungry, it will not make itself a sandwich. It will cry until somebody brings it food. Babies have poor reasoning skills. Babies can’t talk or read or write because they have no concept of language. Babies can’t