There are many reasons to love maple. Nikolas thinks so, because asked what he wants to be when he grows up (someone asked him this for the first time at the dentist’s office last week, and every parent can relate to my waiting with bated breath), he replied: I want to work in a sugar house and make maple syrup! (There are some sketchy details that then involve knocking our house and his cousin’s house down so we can go and live with him on the farm, but hey, the kid sees a future for himself, AND he’s going to hook us up with maple syrup!).
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