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days, when she was an ilamorous newsreader and I was an impossibly incompetent reporter

It would be quite funny to take Roxster, and also s would stop all that patronizing pitying-of-single-wo, like they’re terle e are snapped up before they’ve had tieous and peach-like, thereby so process on self

CONS OF TAKING ROXSTER TO PARTY

Roxster is his owntreated as so device

Crucially, it ht put Roxster off me, to be surrounded by

old people at sixtieth birthday party, and make some sort of coh of course aer than Talitha And frankly, I refuse to believe how old I actually ae for a woman, so much so that many women have decided to adopt it for the rest of their lives

Roxster is probably having his own party with young people squeezed onto his balcony, barbecuing and listening to 70s discoat thisout with a woh to be his mother Actually, possibly, technically, with the advancerandht?

310 pot to pick up Mabel in twenty ot rice cakes ready Gaah Telephone

‘I have Brian Katzenberg for you’

My new agent! Actual agent But I would be BEYOND late for Mabel if I stopped and talked

‘Can I call Brian back later?’ I trilled, trying to sether and put them in a Ziploc with one hand

‘It’s about your spec script’

‘Justinaon the phone saying I’? People’s assistants are , not the person the because they’re in the

Set off on school run, feeling, now, desperate to call back and find out what the call was about Brian has so far sent it to two production companies, both of whom have turned it down But now maybe a fish has bitten at the fish hook?

Fought overwhel’ had come to an abrupt end, but decided far more important to be on ti mother I am

430 pm School run was even more chaos than usual: like Where’s Wally? picture of millions of lollipop ladies, babies in pra standoffs with over-educated SUVwith a double bass strapped to his back, and earth mothers on bicycles with tin boxes full of children in the front Entire road was gridlocked Suddenly, a frantic woo BACK! Come ON! Nobody is HELPING HERE!’

Realizing there had been a terrible accident, I, and everyone else, started rearing their cars crazily onto paveency Services Once road was clear, peered gingerly ahead for the ambulance/bloodbath But there was not an a into a black Porsche, then roaring furiously along the newly cleared road, a s be-uniformed small child next to her in the front seat