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Sailors Take Warning

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We’ve raised babies into adulthood here in Knight Manor, but it’s been a long time since I’ve been awakened every 90 minutes or so by a needful youngster. With little Mishka in our lives, I’ve reacquainted myself with how easily I can wake up and go back to sleep, and miserable as it is, I’ll gladly take being up multiple times a night in exchange for the seeing the joy during the daytime. It’s worth it, but forgive me if my posts aren’t coming out at 5 in the morning these days like the before-time.

It hardly matters anyway. For the first time all year, there was a little red on the screen, but in short order that was wiped clean, including on the /ES:

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