On my daughter Ellie’s 10th birthday, I woke up at 6:00 a.m. like it was a holiday I couldn’t afford to mess up. I’d spent the night before blowing up thirty balloons and taping them to the ceiling, the kind of tape that always fails by morning. Half of them sagged by sunrise, but Ellie didn’t care. She came flying down the hallway with her hair everywhere, yelling, “I’m 10!” like she’d just won something huge. She hugged me so tight I almost dropped the pancakes. There wasn’t a real party. Not

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