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    We first met London when we were walking around Parker Square (the apartments where Brendan and his family live) looking for kids going into Kindergarten. At that point, Kistin was the only girl we had enrolled, and we were trying to even out our boy/girl ratio. Things changed when we saw London. London was walking down the sidewalk with her little sister Reagan. Reagan was one of the most strikingly beautiful toddlers I'd ever seen. Her big brown eyes sparkled through her curly black eye lashes which I had to convince myself weren't fake. What instantly impressed me about London was the way she was caring for her little sister. London faithfully kept her arms close to Reagan in the event

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    ”An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” ― G.K. Chesterton Who knew that starting a school would be such an adventure?!? Well you probably did...most people besides us knew. Perhaps that's why they say ignorance is bliss. They say love is blind and it's love that fuels dreams...therefore it's only logical that dreams are blissfully blind. Over dinner with some people older than wiser than us, one dinner friend told us we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into and we should bow out. The other chuckled and said, "that's the beauty of it! The only way they would have the courage to do this is if they didn't kn

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