well, just like your parents, you arrived fashionably late, and underdressed. but just like them, i’m sure you’ll more than make up for it in charm and good looks.

and while we’re on the topic of your parents, boy are you going to be the most stylish, politically aware, well travelled child in the world! you’ll have to learn to balance radical activism with partying, social propriety with i-don’t-give-a-damn attitude, buddhist minimalism with serious shopping, jet-setting with napping, and full on debate with pacifism. good luck with that, cause god only knows how they manage to do it.

but you are going to have the most amazing life – and if i’m honest, i’m more than a bit jealous. in any case, we’ll meet soon, and I’ll give you more of the lowdown then. and a few bits of dirt on your parents for future get-out-of-jail-free purposes, oh, say, when you’re about 15 or so…

Zachary Martin Hall Blanding
1 may 2005

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