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Maybe when you were a teenaged baby boomer, you babysat. Or maybe you had a sister who did. Or maybe you were the babysitee. Whatever your experience, you probably never came close to what freelance journalist Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy, now of Bellingham, Washington, came close to one night when she took a new job with a local family in her hometown of Ames, Iowa. She writes about it in this excerpt from her new book called “Many Hands Make Light Work” It’s not “based” on a true story, she says, but an actual true story.

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