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The Birds and the Bees

This morning, as I was reading a children’s book about the birth of Jesus, our 6yo asked me a question:
“But how did the Baby get out?”
gulp.
Before launching into an age-appropriate discussion of female anatomy, I tried the easy way out:
“The usual way.”
“But Mom, it couldn’t happen the usual way. There was no midwife. Somebody had [...]

Is everyone around me short?

Or am I tall?My mom and grandma are both taller than me and I remember reading somewhere that the average American woman now is about 5′ 6″, so I’ve been under the impression that I was precisely average.But yesterday I came to the startling realization that nearly all the women I know are shorter than [...]