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162cm and growing

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2019.07.10

My son's above the 98th percentile for height; I was hoping he'd avoid a lifetime of backache and poor shoe selection but no. At 162cm, this chart places him way up there. His seven-year-old sister is 123cm, and mercifully only at the 64th percentile.

rand()m quote

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

—Sigmund Freud