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I was hunched over the half-built crib at 2:13 pm, sweat on my upper lip even though the day had been rainy and 10 degrees, and the IKEA Allen key felt like a medieval torture device. The baby monitor box sat unopened on the kitchen counter. Outside, a TTC bus sighed to a stop and someone two floors down was arguing in Polish, loud and earnest. I remember thinking, of all the things I expected from becoming a parent, dismantling and reassembling furniture in a tiny Leslievi

I was hunched over a crib slat in the back of my car, the trunk open to the rainy Leslieville morning, https://wheretoapp.com/search?poi=10497623806724502236 trying to line up a screw I somehow lost while crawling around like Babywarehouse a human pretzel. The rain blurred the tail lights of the traffic on the Don Valley Parkway, and my phone said 10:42 a.m. I still don't fully know how Allen at the store thought those tiny screws would fit without an extra pair of ha