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April 14, 2025

Ripped from the (blog) archives: my birth story

An old, gross favorite.

A couple of faithful blog readers have been requesting this one, so here you go. It is not for the squeamish but people seem to like it, the sickos. (’s husband Marcus still knows me as the “one who mooed.” )

I wrote this when Henry was three, and now he’s 22. He watched me perform this at a reading when he was 12. I don’t think it scarred him too much.


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