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The Fear of Astra Choking

When i was in charge of preparing astra's food i chopped everything so finely i might as well have blended it or hit it with a hammer which is not what i was supposed to be doing. Since emma's mother was over many times a week she often witnessed emma remarking that i'd inadvertently liquefied astra'sFood and of course emma's mom silently sided with emma forming a triangle. The fear of her choking quickly became my thing the worry i carried that carried all of my other worries. Last year alone every child in america choked to death showing with my thumb an index finger the tiny diameter of a child's windpipe in emma's mind

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