Lucy: Can we watch Me Me? Me: What's that? Lucy: You know, Me Me. Where the wolf chases the ostrich? Me: Meep Meep? Lucy: Ha, Ha. Daddy, you're such a M**p**g idiot.

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Eunjoo takes some meat out of the freezer and makes some comment about having to warm it up. An hour or so later, she goes to make something with the meat, but can't find it. She

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Lucy opens her Christmas present. It is a pair of ballet shoes with hard toes. She is so excited she lets out a wide-eyed voiceless scream. Getting over it, she says, "I guess Santa decided I was

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In the morning, having just stirred from sleep, Lucy sees me and whispers, “ I have one secret for you.” “What is it,” I ask, and she motions me closer. I lean in to hear her secret. It is

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I’m playing with Lucy in the living room. She is doing something, and I capture her with my legs and pull her towards her. Apparently it infuriates her, “If you do that two more times I’m

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I explain to Lucy why a monster had eaten a boy. Me: He was sleeping in the day. Lucy: What day? Me: In the daytime. Lucy: You mean when hamsters cry? Me: The day is when hamsters cry?

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I come up with the clever plan of seducing my mother-in-law. You can tell how old a Korean woman is by how curly hair is. They start with long straight hair. Perhaps it doesn't start long,

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Names in Korea are almost always three syllables, written in three characters. Foreign names are longer. Mine takes five characters at best, but often they insist on my middle name, because it is in my passport, so it

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