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My name is Jaime and I have a broken biological clock. Even though I’ve passed the thirty-year mark, I still don’t have a deeply-rooted, primal desire to pop out a baby. Problem is, if I don’t have a child within a relatively short window (short being under ten years) the decision will be made for [...] Most of the people we’ve visited on this trip have been married, with a few dating situations and the occasional divorce, but no one else has been in that odd limbo known as “being engaged.” It’s a fun time, but dominated by people asking about your wedding (when is it? why is it there? why [...] When we were in Boston, I fulfilled a promise made long ago. No, we didn’t break down and elope. And no, I didn’t move to Canada, as threatened after the 2004 election (I moved to San Francisco instead, which is really another country anyway). Rather, we stopped by the HQ for my employer, Sasaki Associates, in Watertown, Massachusetts. This is the company that kindly allowed me to take a six week sabbatical for our Wedding Road [...] I’m going to sound like I’m repeating myself, but once again we went to visit my cousins. (In case you’re wondering, I have seven cousins on my mom’s side of the family, so that’s why they keep cropping up on the Wedding Road Trip.) This one (we’ll call him Josh) lives outside of Boston with his wife Kris, son Alexander, and [...] I owe my cousin Daniel an apology. Back when he was in high school and I was in the sixth grade, my grandmother took us both to Clovis Lakes, the local water park. For the entire day, I reported to Daniel and gave him the phone numbers of girls who he thought was cute. By the end of the day, he had about twenty numbers. This sounds like a great story [...] Driving around the US for six weeks requires dealing with toll roads. And we have a problem with this. No, this isn’t a political position, a la the Great Flat Tax Debate. Rather, we tend to screw up the whole toll paying activity. This has been a recent issue, because 90% of the tolls in America [...] |
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