Mom: Look, all the snow is gone! Roan: Time to start a new life. (Age 8)
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Existential Awareness
Roan (talking face to face with the family cat, who recently killed and left a dead mouse in the hallway): Hey bro, you got blood on our house. You fought fire with fire with that mouse. (Age 8)
Existential Awareness
Roan (after eating his second piece of pumpkin pie and whipped cream with Christmas dinner): My life has been fulfilled! (Age 8)
Anatomical Awareness
Roan (looking at a photo of himself as a three-day old infant): So tiny, and so useless! (Age 8)
Anatomical Awareness
Roan: My first bike ride was tragic, violent, and legendary! (Age 8)
Existential Awareness
Roan: There has to be a video where I can see a chicken laying an egg out of its butt. There has to be, because humans are extraordinary, and can accomplish many things. (Age 8)
Existential Awareness
Roan: When I was little, Dad put rock and roll in my mind, and it changed my life forever. (Age 8)
Family of Origin
Roan: Dad, remember that day you ruined my life forever? Dad: What? Roan: When you threw the baseball and it went into the street and down the sewer? Dad: Oh, I’m sorry, but there will be a lot of those days. (Age 8)
Existential Awareness
Roan (to Mom): Would you please sit down and enjoy your life?
Raising Roan 