Our friend Noi came to see me from Annapolis. He promised he wouldn’t talk to a baby, but we did have a brief discussion, anyway. I can already say five words: Cookie, cat, hat, dad and hot. So it wasn’t really a one-sided conversation. At least not entirely.
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