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Theresa O’Connor / Treasa Ní Chonchúir

Nine

My baby turned nine years old .

EJ

The three of us went home for Christmas and to Japan in the spring.

Christmas in Scituate
A child in a red-and-green plaid dress smiles at the camera from a seated position next to a Christmas tree. The floor around the child is strewn with gifts, some of which have been unwrapped.
A child in a pink jacket holds a small snowball she just made. A house with a red garage door is somewhat visible behind her. It doesn’t look like there’s all that much snow on the ground.
Snowballs
with Fiona in Tokyo
Two children stand on a sidewalk. Each is holding an umbrella.
A child in a pink sweatshirt with a long ponytail walks alone in a tunnel made of many vermilion torii gates.
Fushimi Inari, Kyoto
Himeji Castle
A child smiles at the camera. Behind the child, in the distance, is a white Japanese castle.
Cherry blossoms in Tokyo
A child poses on a pedesrian bridge. Behind the bridge is a very large, blooming cherry tree.
She fed a deer in Nara!
A child in a blue dress holds a shika-senbei out to a shika deer. A shika deer takes a shika-senbei out of the hand of a child in a blue dress.