Almost as soon as the baby was born, I started saying things like, “My goodness!” and “Oh my!” (The latter not in the spirit of George TakeiGeorge Takei, but a middle-aged Midwestern namby-pamby.)
I don’t understand. I love language, my vocabulary is pretty decent, and I particularly like salty words. So why did I suddenly start spewing verbal pablum?
No really, I’d like to know. Does anyone have any ideas? Do babies emit something that makes this happen? If so, will it also cause me to consider buying sweatshirts with appliqués? Because that would be way over the line of acceptable parental sacrifices.
The good news, however, is that the baby hasn’t taken away my ability to swear up a storm.
Mama-Come-Lately 
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