Howard was only a little disturbed when one of the nursing mothers brought over a traveling playpen and set it up beside him while he watched TV. She laid her baby boy in the playpen for his nap and left the slumbering baby in the pen while she sat down with Anita to eat coffee and homemade pastries in the kitchen while they talked. The other neighbors arrived one-by-one, mostly carrying babies. Their husbands might be trusted with three and four-year-olds, but the mothers weren’t about to leave their little babies in the care of their husbands! In many ways their husbands were little better than children themselves.

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