An Un-Recommendation

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Dear Erins,

Today is Tanager’s fourth birthday! I have such a hard time believing that, but I’m not sure why. When I think back to her first year, it feels like an eternity ago, like it’s in a different universe; but I’m also feeling like, “Wait, how is she already four?” Which is, I think, the crux of th…