PocoBrat

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Sunday, September 09, 2012

Ready for College

Nu with kids and college kids

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Labels: Can/Did, Family, Kidding, Michigan

2 comments:

AAL said...: She is *adorable*!; 9:02 PM AST
maya said...: Thanks, AAL!; 7:10 PM AST

About Me

maya: https://twitter.com/PocoBrat

Student (every day), Professor, Guardian ad Litem, Poetry Editor (most days).

Lives with *and loves* Huckleberry and Scout (puppy school drop-outs), Second grader Nu (Baby A), High Schooler At (Li’l A), and Med School Prof Big A (always).

Bratty since March 1980. In Madras. Vizag. Kodaikanal. Columbia. Jerusalem. Utrecht. Princeton. Chennai. Oxford. Bangalore. New York. Currently: Lansing, MI.

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