SloaneEdmund's first birthday fell on a Thursday.Which Griffin said was poetic because Edmund had arrived on a Thursday and Thursdays were clearly his day and which Daniel said was structurally consistent and which Marcus said was a coincidence and which Sebastian and Tuesday were unbothered by because they were dogs and birthdays were not their area.The party was at Griffin and Emma's apartment.Small. Just the people who mattered. The same forty people from the wedding plus Edmund who was now a person with opinions and mobility and the specific focused energy of someone who had been working on walking for three weeks and was very close and knew it.He had Beckett's eyebrows.This had become a fact acknowledged by everyone present including Margaret who had looked at Edmund at two weeks old and said those are Edmund's eyebrows and then looked at Beckett and said and also yours and Beckett had not said anything but the thing at the corner of his mouth had done what it always did.E
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