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My childhood neighbors meant easy-access friends, open doors, warm porches, sheet forts straddling short chain-link fences, and grabbing rights to the kind of soda and snacks never allowed in my own home. There is one neighbor who I cannot remember without picturing the bushes between our houses. Those bushes were a hiding place for us, […]

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A few months ago, one of Tucker’s friends gave us her old fish tank after upgrading their own.  I was completely excited because I knew that Tucker would love it.  Off to the pet store!  I got the un-chlorinating liquid and PH powder stuff, a filter system, a heater and some other crap that I […]

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We had a follow-up appointment with the developmental pediatrician yesterday.  Before going, I was nervous and looking forward to gaining further insight as to why Tucker has a speech and language delay, and whether he’s on the autism spectrum.  While it was encouraging to hear that the doctor noticed a lot of improvements, even going […]

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It melts me to watch Tucker’s focused concentration while playing with and launching his Blue Angels.  He loves them.  He flies them from their aircraft carrier at the base of the stairs to the kitchen counter, to the table and to the couch.  Although he’ll ask for them if he can’t find them (“Bwue An-gos?”), […]

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