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  A good time and place, it sounds like, to let down your mama mask. But you know what … when she’s in the stroller and you’re pushing the stroller, even though she can’t see you, you’re both headed in the same direction — forward.

  Comment by Kelly — July 31, 2009 @ 5:15 am

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  This happened the day after I got your email. I was so worried about you and it really consumed me but I didn’t want Penny to pick it up. So the walk together was a relief in a way.

  Parents have two faces. This is good, I think, up to a point. It’s good for kids to know that we have a range of emotions but… it’s necessary to hide them sometimes.

  I’ll never forget when I was about five years old I went to stay with my grandparents, who were truly wonderful to me. I was with my Nana and my Pop Pop was coming home from work. I decided to hide in the closet and surprise him. Well, as I was hiding I heard him come home and he was all grumpy. I had never heard him talk in this voice before. I thought, is this my Pop Pop? And then he opened the closet and was delighted to see me and I, of course, was relieved and happy. But I never forgot that their was the Pop Pop side of him and then his other side that I know now in my own adult world.

  Comment by Alison — July 31, 2009 @ 11:31 am

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