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Like a gentle, enthusiastic, and understanding Noah, she has steered her vessel full of strange progeny through the stormy seas of life with great skill, always faced with the possibility of mutiny, always surrounded by the dangerous shoals of overdraft and extravagance, never being sure that her navigation would be approved by the crew, but certain that she would be blamed for anything that went wrong.

Besides, excessive weeping was the first step on the road to becoming a ninny. And if she allowed herself to become a ninny, the subsequent responsibilities wouldn’t be pleasant. She’d be required to shriek over a mouse, treat the arrival of dessert like a moral crisis, and wander about looking for ordinary things to declare offensive. It didn’t bear imagining.

Besides, excessive weeping was the first step on the road to becoming a ninny. And if she allowed herself to become a ninny, the subsequent responsibilities wouldn’t be pleasant. She’d be required to shriek over a mouse, treat the arrival of dessert like a moral crisis, and wander about looking for ordinary things to declare offensive. It didn’t bear imagining.