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When my best friend Kelly asked me to babysit her 8-year-old son Thomas, I gladly agreed. My husband Ryan seemed unusually bothered by the idea, but I…

When my five-year-old came home from a weekend at my sister Lily’s, he blurted out, “Guess what me and my other dad did!” I laughed—until I realized…

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