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“A favorite aquatic animal? Hmm maybe the turtle.
“When they’re first born, they don’t have much of a chance in life. Everything is set up against them, and it’s do or die. They have no mother or father turtle to show them the way. They have to break out of a constricting shell, crawl up through the sand they’ve been buried beneath and then run like hell to the sea before they’re torn apart by some waiting predator.”

“Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?” Charlie’s happy, high pitched voice rings out.
“Cows go,” I answer and listen for her response.
“Cows go, who?”
“No, silly, cows go moo!”
I hear Charlie break into a fit of laughter and Sophie opens the door, smiling.
“Clever,” she tells me with a sweet expression.

The cutest!!!

"One day she even stunned me when she knocked on my office door and reminded me she was headed to lunch, in case I wanted to join her. I was such a transparent idiot—got up so fast, I smacked a stack of papers and my water bottle to the floor in one spastic move—as if she’d given me a two second window to accept the offer. Fuck it, I made her laugh. And I love making her laugh. Sophie has an amazing fucking laugh."