I sometimes wish I could turn off my brain and not think at all, but it’s Friday afternoon, it’s my baby girl’s 31st birthday, I have a busy weekend ahead and Mothers’ Day is Sunday.
You throw all that on top of the three stories I’m juggling and the only way I can focus is to get the one thing that is screaming at me the loudest out of my head and into words.
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