pregnant! again!

but reader, let us not dwell on that fact just now.

instead, as the baron, the husband, and toddler x prepare for an early december trip to new york city, let's read a bit about the city.

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the baron's favorite part of this article?

“Rats are almost as fecund as germs … a rat at four is older than a man at ninety. ‘Rats that survive to the age of four are the wisest and the most cynical beasts on earth,’ one exterminator says. ‘A trap means nothing to them, no matter how skillfully set. They just kick it around until it snaps; then they eat the bait … I believe some of them can read.’ ”