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But while this article tells us that our talented tyke's precocious success is "partly due to his talents and partly due to the abundance of opportunities in high tech fields today," we then learn: 1) He's the son of a venture capitalist; 2) he had trouble getting a job, until some of the partners at the VC firm dad founded hooked him up with Hotmail, one of their portfolio companies; and 3) at Hotmail, he struggled to do the job, but by the end of the summer had written some code they could actually use.
Mike has known Jennifer since the latter was a tyke.
The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.
A milliwarhol , or about nine-tenths of a second of fame, might appropriately be named after the tyke whose rescue became a brief focus of attention last summer after he fell through the hole of an outhouse.
You might even continue the discussion with the tyrant tyke's folks, pointing out that discipline bespeaks love and that the kid will have hell's own time if she continues speaking to people in such a manner.
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