NewMeat comes in comes in to ask for data and he makes obligatory small talk about the holiday. I ask him:<\/p>\n
“So, did you have the in-laws up for Thanksgiving?”<\/p>\n
“Yeah. . . all of them. Her brothers and sisters and their kids. It was great birth control,” he says, with a laugh.<\/p>\n
“Yeah,” I say. I grin, too, but I know what he just did.<\/p>\n
He looks around. “Is this your family?”<\/p>\n
“Yep.”<\/p>\n
NewMeat leans in for a closer look at the fourteen faces crowded into the small frame. “How many?”<\/p>\n
“Twelve kids.”<\/p>\n
“That’s great. Which are you?”<\/p>\n
“Third.”<\/p>\n
“Where are you. . oh, there, I see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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