I suppose we did kind of set him up for it. In the months before his birth, the empty nursery served as a shrine to My Neighbor Totoro. The large one sat in the corner under an oversized leaf from Ikea. The medium and small one marched across the elevated changing table. Soot Sprints danced […]
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