In Memoriam: ‘Baby Girl #1’
- Culture, Politics, Western Civilization
- May 3, 2022
“Somebody’s boring me,” poet Dylan Thomas once commented. “I think it’s me,” he added.
Were you to become a fly on the wall, or in this age of electronic wonders, a tiny drone, you might observe my daily life and …
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If we look at the …
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