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You Say It's Your Birthday...

You Say It's Your Birthday...

The Field Trip Newsletter #17

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Erin Austen Abbott
May 27, 2021
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Today is my son’s last day of 2nd grade and he will be nine next month. Nine. I remember nine like it was yesterday. It’s was an age where I felt grown-up, although I wasn’t. I had more opinions and than the year before. I could go a bit further from my house than the year before. I could stay up a bit later than when I was eight. I was a bit more curio…

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