Hello, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, or Dear Prudence, here.

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Here's a preview of today's mini episode featuring Nicole Perkins and Bim Atoinmi from Slate's Thirst Aid Kit podcast.

All right, lady.

I mean...

30-year-old breast pump.

That was a detail for me where I physically recoiled.

And I thought, come on, Mom.

Like, sort this out.

I understand the excitement that comes with being, you know, a grandmother.

It's exciting. A lot of things are falling into place, things that, you know, a grandmother. It's exciting.

A lot of things are falling into place, things that, you know,

and this is a woman who has said she is excited.

She has, you know, been wanting to be a grandmother.

This is, she's always dreamed of it.

I think when people do that, they dream to the exclusion of everybody else's dreams.

And it can be difficult to rein someone in.

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