This week Twitter was where I first heard that Elizabeth Taylor had passed away and that my baby should be in a rear facing car seat for an extra year.

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And that sporty coupe parked out front inevitably makes way for something more practical, or at least more amenable to strapping Baby into a rear-facing car seat without prompting a visit to the chiropractor.

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