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“Some of my children were like ‘Um, you don’t cook me breakfast like that every morning,” Missy says.

“How comfortable am I getting? Um, real comfortable, to where I am starting to know their plays and where the screens are and in general, Lakers terms and Lakers basketball,” he said.

And Mr. Reeves’s, um, sparing approach to expressing emotion befits the play.

And like many Democrats, he suffers from “Working Families” syndrome, using the phrase as a disfluent utterance in the way that others might say “um,” “like,” and “you know.”

Let’s just say that the muted celebrations of fascism’s defeat were premature, and those apparent big wins for democracy were a lot messier and more tenuous than they looked in those halcyon days of, um, four or five months ago.