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7 memories from the first year of a baby's life

Writer Ann Lamott and her son Sam share stories of unexpectedly adding a new generation to the family.

4. A blanket becomes a nightmare object

  • By Molly Driscoll, Monitor contributor

Sam told Anne he worries just as much as she did when he was younger. "I swore I'd never be like you, have the obsessive psycho worry about my kid," he said. "But I can put Jax in his stroller, he's totally safe, warm... and instantly I imagine his face too close to his Mr. Bear blanket... and I have to pull it down because otherwise it's a lethal object, full of death air."

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