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  • Agree on Wings of Fire having a lot of violence/death.  My now-10-year-old has tried to read it a few times over the past couple years. I read her the first few chapters before saying I wanted to stop because all the death and killing and just bleakness of their world was too much for me. Maybe it gets better, but characters are killing or attempting to kill baby and adolescent dragons within the first few pages. I’m not saying the series is necessarily inappropriate—I was a big fan of Agatha Ch
  • I am on the patch and oral progesterone but started both at once. I think I am also on the lowest dose of the patch. Do you remember how look it took to feel like it was helping?
  • This is a really good and important point. Totally agree that the reason there are two parties is because of the constitutional structure of our government, with single-member congressional districts and plurality-based winner-take-all elections. Countries with multiple political parties generally have parliamentary systems with multi-member districts elected by proportional representation, but even then, there is a body of research finding that the number of effective/viable political parties i

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