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I post the following not just because it's cute, but because this is one way I can be sure it won't be lost, as google takes steps daily to become the Collective Permanent Intelligence of the Future. Just a few weeks ago, right after Halloween, I came across a fantastic piece of paper in which Ruby had dictated to Leah her plans for Halloween costumes covering next year, when she's seven, up through until she turns eighteen. I meant to keep the paper somewhere safe, but it promptly got lost and now I can remember only that she planned to be a witch in 2006 and that I'll need to remind her that she's going as the Creature from the Black Lagoon in 2017.

To avoid a repeat, I preserve the following here. A school paper on which Leah wrote what she wished for when the Thanksgiving wishbone was figuratively snapped:

"I thought about all the pets that were in Katrena. I wished that they all could find homes. Maybe I could even take care of some of them. I would wish that vets would come find them. They would have to stay at the hospital pretty long but maybe they would survive. Leah"