Fleeing the LA Wildfires with My Newborn
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Oh my gosh, I'm already crying. I said I wasn't going to. I haven't even started talking. Okay, so last time I spoke to you, I was nine months, ten months pregnant, wrapping my head around a sort of kind of maternity leave. Since then, I did have my baby, a girl. She is beautiful and healthy. And I knew this was going to be a big period of transition and change in my life. I just did not know the extent of it because two weeks after we brought home our baby girl, we lost our home. Our house burned down in the LA fires in the Palisades. I thought, naively, I guess, in retrospect, that I'm pretty calm in a crisis. I've learned to catch many a curveball in a way that you only really can with practice. I mean, this wasn't my first disaster.
It was not my first metaphorical fire, at least. But this was nothing, nothing like I have ever experienced before. The evacuation for us wasn't what it sounded like on TV. We didn't have orderly instructions about what to do. We literally saw the fire from the rooftop of our home and we left as soon as we could. When we evacuated, we left with nothing. Literally the clothes on our backs and our baby in our arms. I grabbed her, not even thinking to pack a bag. I know that sounds crazy. If I was hearing this, I would think it was crazy too. You know, you always say, well, I would take this or I would take that in case of a fire. And I had that list in my head.
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