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Yes, what a week. What a week it's been been saying at the mother-in-law is a lot. Turns, turns out

children are, they're relentlessly needy. Fuck, they just need you all the time. They're very cute

about it mostly. I can't believe it. You know, my best friend, Lens mother is this fabulous Russian

woman, Silva, and she has sort of this old Russian saying, which was like, you know, when it's

your kid's shit, it's like, you know, it's like gold. I'm not, I'm not translating it perfectly,

or even maybe remotely, but just like it won't affect you when it's your kid's shit. You won't

mind changing the diapers, and I'm here to report it. It's awful. It's, it's, it's, it's total,

I, just because I'm connected to him, I, I, doesn't make an impact. It's just equally as awful as if

it was a stranger's poop. I'm just kidding. Because, you know, you got to go that way for the bit. What am I

going to get all sweet and tell you the, you know, tell you the honest thing, which is it's

absolutely completely cute and fine. I'm happy when he poops, because like, I know he feels better.

And that maybe once he does that, then he'll like, feel content for a minute, and then maybe

drift off to fingers crossed a three hour to, I don't know, 11 hours, CESTA, and just leave me alone to

focus on me, my favorite subject. But yeah, they really need you. They really need you.

But they're cute. He's a good kid. I think so far as far as babies go. He's good. He's like,

yeah, he's good. He's not overly shitty. He's not that baby at the restaurant who's just like,

you want to like pay the parents to leave where you're trying to enjoy your like crab cake or

your sampler platter, and you're like looking over at your date going like, who the fuck would

bring a fucking kid to the restaurant or Nordstroms? Who the fuck brings their fucking kid, a

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