Cobie Smulders
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274 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Cobie Smulders’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The catch the better things go at Cafe Everyone, the less Emmet needs me there, which is the whole point for me not to be there, and so I step back.
It's odd pouring so much into an endeavor whose ultimate success depends entirely on your absence.
But I guess that's no different than parenthood in general.
We also buy Emmett a group home to live in with three high school friends, now co workers, so they can be as independent as possible.
Which is to say, still not all the way.
Emmet is the most verbal and social roomy, but they all have different challenges.
We employ a rotating staff of direct support professionals to help them run their lives all week.
Each night one of the staffers sleeps over to be on hand for emergencies.
The other roomies' parents chip in what they can, but the real money comes from me and Rob.
And really from Rob, so he deserves a lot of credit.
He took on extra rewrite gigs to pay for it, punching up some truly crappy movie scripts.
But it all works.
Emmet is happy, and my young adult with a disability has a place in the world.
No easy feat.
And with that
I have the happy ending of my little memoir.
Now, I have zero expectations for this book.
It's mainly an excuse to sit and think, to have a small thing that's mine amid the daily avalanche of my family's needs.
From my old life as a journalist, I know a small publisher.
I send them my manuscript,
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