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Chris Erskine: Does heaven have a dimple section? Does it allow beagles?

When I was a kid, my mom told me I was the original Gerber baby, and I believed it. Then my sister claimed to be the original Gerber baby, and by then our mom wasn't around to straighten things out, the way moms do.

No one straightens things out like a mom.

We don't have any moms in our house anymore, to straighten things out, to order the dog food, to remind us that it's trash day or that the dentist

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