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Unsung Heroes of Fatherhood

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By Wendi Aarons Verified, Johanna Gohmann
| McSweeney's Verified
Brandon Jackson, who not only found his wallet without blaming his entire family for losing it, but also found it in the pants he was wearing. Eric Hughes, who, while listening to his wife’s entire twenty-two-minute story about how rude Lauren always is at book club, did not offer a suggestion for how to fix the problem. He just nodded and said, “Wow, unbelievable,” at all the right moments.
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Introducing Elder Cushion: The Bubble Wrap for Seniors

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By Wendi Aarons Verified
| McSweeney's Verified
It happens to us all. One day, your mom is telling you to be careful when climbing a tree, and the next day, she’s a seventy-five-year-old standing on top of a wobbly fifteen-foot ladder, dusting a chandelier with an old TV Guide. “It’s fine,” she yells, “I’ve been doing this for over sixty years.” From there, it’s just a short, spiteful ride to the orthopedist with repeated mutterings of “I told you a million times to stay on the ground, didn’t I?
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More Excerpts from Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto

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By Wendi Aarons Verified
| McSweeney's Verified
“Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language.” — Brian Phillips, The Ringer, on Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir, American Canto, about her affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - - - “I desired. He desired me desiring. He desired to desire my desiring. It was turtles all the way down, except the turtles were boners.” - - - “Our union represented the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth, and the eternal, unending nature of time.
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