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Tara Claeys's avatar

Brilliant! I never thought about the tedium of the spider. “Holy shit, I’m Itsy fucking Bitsy??!” And the trick the universe played on you through Spotify gave me chills. Can’t wait to share this

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Azita Nahai, Ph.D.'s avatar

Sending you a tight squeeze 🥰

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Ricardo Rico's avatar

I am still unsure how your writing hits me so deeply every single time. I’m in tears. This is beautiful and I love you so.

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Azita Nahai, Ph.D.'s avatar

You know how much I love making you cry 😉

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Nicole's avatar

I think I need to read this about 10 times to fully absorb all of the gems here, but I am so grateful for the "Why do I need to escape the only place I want to be??". Thank you friend for sharing and giving all of us Itsy Bitsys a chance to feeeeel

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Azita Nahai, Ph.D.'s avatar

Love youuuu. So grateful we get to rinse & repeat TOGETHER (fucking fuuuck). 🥰

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Leah Barlavi's avatar

so beautifully written. thank you.

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Azita Nahai, Ph.D.'s avatar

Big hugs. We got this. 😉🥰

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Ariana Shore's avatar

Azita. What a gift you are to us, how we needed this writing so badly. Love you, mama. ❤️

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Azita Nahai, Ph.D.'s avatar

Love you. Thank you for rinse & repeating with me. 🥰

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Erica Mobasser's avatar

How I wish we lived closer. I know for certain you would be someone I would call to meet for a "quick cup of coffee" and 3 hours later we would not have scratched the surface. That movie has been one of my favorites ever since I watched it in the 80's at 15 years old (when I surely could not have appreciated much of it) and then found it again about 7 years ago. That song has been on one of my running lists for over 2 decades! Love you from too many miles away.

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Azita Nahai, Ph.D.'s avatar

No suprise, my kindred spirit 🥰 Seriously though, how are we not in the same city??!

Coffee & movie night (Heartburn obv) on your next visit!

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Greg Goldman's avatar

Love the serendipity of itsy bitsy working its way into the live version. How perfect is that!

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Chantal Mokhtarzadeh's avatar

You’ve summed it up Azi. In the end we do the best for our kids whatever it takes !! For better or worse ! And somehow we survive !

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Azita Nahai, Ph.D.'s avatar

We learned from the best, Chanti 😘

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Laura Segal's avatar

Everything about THIS. Jesus - you gave us words for the whole damn complex and intricate experience. “I mean was I the only over-tired, bleary-eyed mom that missed this sardonic ‘haha, welcome to your new life!’ memo hidden in plain sight??” — unbelievable. And I also had a weird love of this Carly Simon song as a kid… it used to make me cry back then. 🙂. I’m next to you in the parking garage crying and preparing myself

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