When I write about my children, I refer to them only as the boy and the girl. Of course they have actual names. Of course! Funny thing is, calling them the boy and the girl predates the blogging era by many, many years.

The boy was born at a time when none of our other friends had children. In fact, no one else reproduced for a good five years after we did. Therefore, the boy was “the boy” — the only child included in our group of friends. When, six and a half years after our son entered our lives, we had a baby girl, our friend Dave chuckled and said, you don’t even have to give her a name, she will just be “the girl.” And so she is.

So it’s not just here that they are referred to in this way. Of course, we love their names and we use them often. Just not here.

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