As a college reporter and editor during the Watergate years, I had to be pried away from my typewriter and newsroom colleagues.

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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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"I didn't know if the military police would be coming through the door to take me away because someone had reported me, " he said.

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The worry I already had for my son being away from home or school is now magnified right at the time he wants to be more independent.

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