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<p>I’d hesitate to describe someone as “thriving” in TFA. That would be in bad taste, like saying your enlisted child is thriving in Afghanistan. </p>
<p>What seems to be helping my kid, as much as anything else, is a wicked sense of humor. This is someone who can start telling a funny story to a friend in the middle of a New York City subway train, and within minutes, without any apparent self-consciousness, have the entire car engaged and in stitches. I don’t know where he got that from, not from his Mom or from me. It’s a mysterious gift and you cannot take a course to learn it in school.</p>