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That's funny, I always thought District 4 was in the Northeast, where people fish for lobsters and crabs and that sort of thing.

Oh my God, I clicked through to see what you were talking about, and now I feel like I'm going to be on some FBI watchlist. That is just fucking WRONG.

The National Association for Down Syndrome says, "Approximately 40% of the children have congenital heart defects...Some of the heart conditions require surgery while others only require careful monitoring. Children with Down syndrome have a higher incidence of infection, respiratory, vision and hearing problems as

So I'm the only person who absolutely believed that Collins was thinking of Jude Law in the "The Talented Mr. Ripley" era?

The first person I ever met who spelled "voila" as "wala" was my then 12-year-old cousin. Who is French, lives in a suburb of Paris, and only speaks French. She was just a poor speller.

Don't forget Beaches! Yes, there was the love triangle, but it was basically a plot point to add drama to a story about the lifelong friendship between the women.

Pioneer Woman, the cook/homeschooler/religious fanatic/pretty, rich wife? Seriously? Someone finds her interesting enough to make a movie about? Even she thinks her entire life is about taking pretty pictures of all the nice meals she makes for her husband and kids, who are the entirety of her world.

I don't think Kate Hudson or Cameron Diaz are particularly good actresses at all—they're both completely one note. Yes, Diaz has her "I'm a crazy, fun, super hot girl" thing where she slaps her ass and acts like a maniac, but that's the entirety of her humor oeuvre. Witherspoon has plenty of talent, it seems from her

Shockingly, being interested in cars is not actually genetic. You might have to encourage your boys to be into cars if you want them to be. Or you could apply this list to anything else—cooking, making clothing, soccer, whatever.

Can you post where you got that photo from? It's awesome!

I live a mere hour from where Gravedigger lives (can a truck live somewhere? Anyway, where its owners live), so we see it fairly frequently in real life. My two young daughters, as a result, are completely obsessed with monster trucks and want to drive them.

Actually, most nonfiction and science publishers prefer to use "woman racer," to focus on the person, not the chromosomes. I agree that it comes out sounding rather odd a lot of the time, and I'm not a huge fan of it, but the intention is to avoid the crappy, sexist way many people in society refer to women solely as

There's an American version of Top Gear?!! Blasphemy!

If you're worried about just the exams being invasive, you definitely don't want to do egg donation! Fertility shots, ultrasounds, constant doctor visits—it isn't easy, it's painful, and it's definitely invasive. It's also an incredible gift for an infertile couple, but not an easy one.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to know how your body works! Even if you never end up having children for some reason, knowing how your breasts function is still good information to have about yourself.

Oh, @LarissaFae made me think I missed something—are you thinking of getting implants because you think large breasts are needed for breastfeeding? They are definitely NOT! Even totally flat breasts can make milk just fine; in fact, it might be easier! I have big boobs, and they basically smothered my infants and I

Your OBGYN would be the best person to ask, but as far as I know, there is no risk from implants, and they do not hinder breastfeeding at all. Women who have breast reductions do often have trouble breastfeeding because sometimes the actual ducts are removed; I know a woman who had to use a tube feeding system with

Sadly, no; I live in the buckle of the Bible belt. There are something like fifty churches in my town of less than 18,000 people, and every single last one of them is Baptist, Methodist, or evangelical/Pentecostal. There are several somewhat out of town in the farm areas that actually do snake handling, speaking in

"That is the equivalent," Williams writes, "of one thousand light trucks moving one hundred miles per hour."

I just Googled "Our Whole Lives," and discovered that, of course, it's from the Unitarian Universalist church! You guys are so awesome. I wish so much that there was a UU church near me—the closest one is over 90 minutes away. I see that people can purchase the curriculum on the UU website, which is awesome! I may ask