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if he was my father

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Mr. Navarro is 79 years old and shakes my hand with his left because rheumatoid arthritis has twisted the right like a pretzel. But even with the left, the shake is not the firm palm-to-palm fingers wrapped around my hand kind of shake.

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intuition

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When my son Avery was 5 years old, I moved out to suburbia for the “great public schools.” Mistake. Doesn’t quite make my “top ten worst decisions” list—I’ve made some doozies. It wasn't all bad because it let me know for sure just how into me Robert was when we started dating.