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Foolish Child #21: Sick and Tired

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Apr 26, 2017
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Foolish Child is a biweekly comic series by Dickens! 


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I am a queer coparenting mama to Dickens Jr. Doodler by day, 911 dispatcher by night. All my favorite shows look better on Tumblr. I am two years and 450K words deep into constructing a fanfic called Ages and I’m never giving up on it. Bering & Wells.

Dickens has written 123 articles for us.

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  • Heather Hogan
    April 26, 2017 at 9:10 am

    DICKENS! Oh my gosh, congratulations!!!

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  • amillionprompts
    April 26, 2017 at 9:28 am

    Hilarious as always, and congratulations!!

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  • Laneia
    April 26, 2017 at 10:12 am

    congratulationsssss!!

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  • Molly Stratton
    April 26, 2017 at 10:13 am

    YAYYYYYYYYYYY!

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  • PhillyBaba
    April 26, 2017 at 10:14 am

    Yay, congratulations!

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  • dufrau
    April 26, 2017 at 10:19 am

    Heyyyyy congratulations Dickens! And also great comic!

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  • Riese
    April 26, 2017 at 10:21 am

    CONGRATS!

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  • Casey
    April 26, 2017 at 10:28 am

    congratulations!

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  • adunlap
    April 26, 2017 at 10:30 am

    Congrats!

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  • Natalie
    April 26, 2017 at 10:39 am

    Best. Announcement. Ever.

    Congratulations!

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  • Valerie Anne
    April 26, 2017 at 11:52 am

    Yayyy babies! Er, baby! ;)

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  • Hannah
    April 26, 2017 at 11:55 am

    Wahoo!!! Congrats!

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  • Al
    April 26, 2017 at 12:24 pm

    :-) congratulations! Do you know if it’s twins?

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  • Lindsay
    April 26, 2017 at 12:33 pm

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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  • Siobhan
    April 26, 2017 at 12:41 pm

    That was so cute! Also congratulations on the impending mini human!

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  • devon
    April 26, 2017 at 12:46 pm

    This is too cute! Congratulations!

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  • Emma2711
    April 26, 2017 at 1:34 pm

    Congratulations! And I loved this comic :)

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  • Isabel
    April 26, 2017 at 4:16 pm

    Wow! Congrats!

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  • Lisa
    April 26, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    Way to bury the lede :) Congratulations!

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  • KaeLyn
    April 26, 2017 at 7:45 pm

    CONGRATUFUCKINGLATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Jo
    April 26, 2017 at 11:30 pm

    Congratulations and the very best warmth and wishes to you, Dickens. :)

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  • Vicky
    April 27, 2017 at 3:04 am

    Wow congratulations!!!

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  • j9tigger
    April 27, 2017 at 6:12 am

    Congratulations on your pending arrival!

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  • Sarah Walters
    April 27, 2017 at 6:53 am

    Congratulations, Dickens! What a fantastic reveal, too.

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  • Nyles Claire
    April 27, 2017 at 8:16 am

    Holy crap so exciting! Also this is the cutest comic, haha :)

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  • Eve
    April 28, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    Mom was convinced my older brother was going to be twins, because several of her friends and relatives had recently had twins. Turned out he was just a big baby, and he still is 24 years later. Mazel tov.

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  • no longer nice
    April 29, 2017 at 5:59 am

    Congratulations and best wishes to you and yours!

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  • Hi there
    July 5, 2017 at 1:14 pm

    So good! Congrats! Also, everyone did the same to me when I got pregnant. -_- my wife even got sad the first few weeks when i referred to it as one baby instead of 2.

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