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DNF – Behind the scenes of Fedora's future package manager
Replacement Parts
DNF will soon replace Yum as Fedora's default package manager, but it still has some hurdles to overcome.
Package managers are such an integral part of a distribution that the idea of replacing one may seem surprising – or even a challenge to the distribution's identity. Yet that is what Ale¨ Kozumplík and the other contributors to DNF [1] are preparing to do. With version 0.4.11 just released, DNF is currently available in Fedora 20 and is tentatively scheduled to replace Fedora's package manager Yum [2] entirely by the end of 2014.
Kozumplík is a Red Hat employee working out of Prague. "I had my first serious open source inside exposure in 2009 when I started to work on Anaconda, the Fedora system installer," he says. "Anaconda interacts with Yum, of course, so I learned about the general issues with packaging then."
Gaining experience and wanting to work on something different, Kozumplík began exploring Fedora's packaging tools in late 2011. Today, DNF is developed full time by Kozumplík and Radek Holý, with contributions from Yum expert Zdenek Pavlas and university student Jan Silhan. Other contributors include Michael Schroeder on libsolv [3], TomᨠMlcoch on a C library for metadata synchronization and downloads, Richard Hughes on the PackageKit front end [4], and Jindrich Lu¸a on the library for handling high-level distribution metadata.
The name DNF, as Kozumplík is probably tired of explaining, does not stand for anything. As he says on the project wiki, "it has no relevant meaning" and is "meant as a project name only." The sole concern in naming the package manager was the need to avoid a naming conflict with Yum, because in the early stages of development, it often co-exists with its predecessor.
The Problems with Yum
DNF began as a fork of Yum and is meant to address several long-standing problems in Yum, the most pressing of which is dependency resolution and interaction with online repositories.
"There are better dependency solvers out there," Kozumplík says, speaking about Yum's capabilities. DNF's own solution uses SUSE's libsolv, with hawkey as a C and Python wrapper. Libsolv, he adds, "employs a very solid algorithm to do the resolving. Its other main strength is effective representation of the packaging data in memory. It has a very generic API able to handle many different packaging tasks and situations, which can make it a bit intimidating to start using. That's where hawkey comes in, with its simplified workflow."
Another problem with Yum according to Kozumplík is that "the API is not documented. One has to browse the code to find the right means to [write a] call. This in effect means that everything in Yum is considered a public API and that means the maintainers have got their hands twisted behind their backs when trying to refactor or remove unused stuff." For example, "there is a method in Yum with a typo in its name that nobody can remove or fix for this reason. This makes the maintaining and testing difficult, and building new features is slow. DNF is doing a much better job here by documenting the API, keeping it slim and well-specified."
Yet another shortcoming of Yum is that it supports only Python for extensions. "Everyone but Python developers has a hard time using it and are calling for a C API," Kozumplík says. "For instance, PackageKit needs to do packaging in a way that's guaranteed to be compatible with how DNF does it, and it should be able to without having to spawn a separate DNF process or embed a Python interpreter. That's why we built hawkey and librepo [a C and Python library for downloading metadata and packages from repositories.]. More C APIs are to come later."
Other improvements in DNF include a lower memory reduction and less automatic synchronization of metadata with repositories – a process that users often complain "happens too often and takes too much time."
Asked why he did not simply contribute patches to Yum, Kozumplík explains that "gradual patching was technically hard and politically even harder. At the time I was starting to work, it was just not realistically possible to join the Yum upstream development and have changes of this magnitude submitted. The maintainers were against such changes, and when you compare the two code bases now, you can't blame them. For starts, DNF is 29k lines of code, having had lots of internals moved out into the underlying C libraries, while Yum is 56k lines of code. DNF is still a branch of Yum of sorts, but for practical reasons (early testing, integration within Fedora) we are making our own releases."
In the end, Kozumplík says, "We had no choice, really" except to fork.
The Current State of DNF Integration
DNF made its first general appearance in Fedora 18. In Fedora 20, general users are being openly invited to start using DNF instead of Yum [5].
Behind the scenes, the plan is to increase integration with PackageKit and to expand the API to start importing Yum's plugins. "We could have ported the plugins already," Kozumplík explains, "but they'd have to use undocumented methods which would only bring the same problems Yum is suffering from now. And we don't like to walk in circles."
However, the most difficult and most controversial aspect of readying DNF for its upcoming role is implementing all of Yum's options. "Everything one uses daily in Yum is there in DNF," Kozumplík says, and the current version supports routine installation and erasure, as well as installing in packaging groups, downgrading packages, upgrading to a specific package version, searching for packages, and viewing active repositories and command history.
By contrast, numerous Yum commands and plugins have yet to find their way into DNF. These include debugging and verbose modes, the ability to enable repos or exclude specific packages or skip broken ones during installation.
These and other unimplemented features are now being considered for inclusion in DNF. "Yum has a set of quirky features that are either partially or fully undocumented, and there are some users in the habit of using them," Kozumplík says. "What we do is to take these cases one and by one and decide whether DNF is or is not the right opportunity to fix them, and we document these decisions meticulously so the users are not in for bad surprises."
Yet, despite all precautions, some of these decisions are almost inevitably going to be questioned by the Fedora user base. For example, like Yum, DNF includes a feature for removing extra kernels when a new one in installed. This feature prevents the
/boot partition of a system from filling up with unnecessary kernels.
However, in the latest version of DNF, if not configured properly, this feature can remove all kernels from a system, including the current one, resulting in an unbootable system. For several days, the issue was a major thread on the Fedora devel list, not just because of the debate about how the feature should be implemented, but also because of the questioning of how such important decisions should be made in Fedora. In the end, the issue faded more because of a lack of anything new to say than because the concern had been resolved to everybody's satisfaction [6].
The concern is probably unjustified – Kozumplík insists that, in the end, "no major feature of Yum will be dropped; otherwise, we would not be able to proceed with replacing it in Fedora." All the same, the question of how old kernels are removed is unlikely to be the last controversy DNF faces as it moves towards general release. In the end, some users may continue to prefer Yum even after DNF becomes the Fedora default, just as some now use alternatives to Yum.
Replacing such a major part of Fedora is a large challenge, but it's one that Kozumplík and the other DNF programmers are bracing to meet. "We try to make DNF as modern and as feature-complete a package manager as possible, given the constraints imposed by Fedora's legacy – that is, having to be based on RPM and having to give a familiar feel to Yum users while tackling the problems inherent to Yum. Given these options, there's no competition to DNF; otherwise, Fedora would use it already," says Kozumplík.
- DNF: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF#Owner
- Yum: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Yum
- SUSE's libsolv: https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv
- PackageKit: http://www.packagekit.org/pk-intro.html
- DNF and Fedora: http://dnf.baseurl.org/2013/12/19/dnf-and-fedora-20/
- Feature debate: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-January/thread.html#193310
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Alec Wilkinson
Alec Wilkinson (b. 1952 - ) is a writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980.[1] According to The Philadelphia Inquirer he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American (20th and early 21st century) "literary journalists...(reminiscent) of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee." He is the author of ten books: "Midnights," (1982), "Moonshine," (1985), "Big Sugar," (1989), "The Riverkeeper," (1981), "A Violent Act, (1993), "My Mentor," (2002), "Mr. Apology," (2003), "The Happiest Man in the World," (2007), the latter about Poppa Neutrino, the only man to cross the Atlantic in a raft made of trash, and "The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger," (2009). His most recent book is "The Ice Balloon," (2012), the account of the Swedish visionary aeronaut S.A. Andree's attempt, in 1897, to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon.[2] Before Wilkinson was a writer, he was a policeman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, which is the subject of "Midnights," and before that he was a rock and roll musician, playing in a number of bands, including one in Berkeley, California with Tony Garnier, Bob Dylan's longtime bass player and bandleader. Wilkinson began writing when he was twenty-four, showing work to William Maxwell, his father's friend, who in addition to being a novelist and short-story writer, had for forty years been an editor of fiction at The New Yorker. They worked together closely for years. Maxwell died in July 2000. "My Mentor" describes their friendship. Wilkinson's honors include a Lyndhurst Prize, a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and a Guggenheim fellowship. He is married, has a son, and lives in New York City. He is also the brother of Leland Wilkinson.
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- Wilkinson, Alec (1982). Midnights, a year with the Wellfleet police. New York: Random House.
- — (2009). The protest singer : an intimate portrait of Pete Seeger. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Essays and reporting[edit]
- Wilkinson, Alec (April 16, 2007). "No obstacles". The Sporting Scene. The New Yorker. Retrieved 13 July 2011. Parkour.
- — (December 8, 2008). "From Russia". The Talk of the Town. At the Rink. The New Yorker 84 (40): 38. Retrieved 15 May 2009. Translated web reports of Russian ice hockey matches.
- — (November 15, 2010). "Long time coming". The Music Scene. The New Yorker 86 (36). Retrieved 2014-10-20. Bettye LaVette
- — (December 19–26, 2011). "Higher, faster, madder". Profiles. The New Yorker 87 (41): 60–70. Retrieved 2014-10-20. Ashrita Furman
- — (February 13–20, 2012). "Troubadour". The Talk of the Town. Passing Through. The New Yorker 88 (1): 6. Retrieved 2014-11-12. J.D. Souther.
- — (January 7, 2013). "Being prepared". The Talk of the Town. Ink. The New Yorker 88 (42): 19–20. Retrieved 2014-10-20. Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues.
- — (March 4, 2013). "Cubies". The Talk of the Town. Art's Sake. The New Yorker 89 (3): 21. Retrieved 2015-05-06.
- — (April 1, 2013). "Rap sheet". The Talk of the Town. Metrics. The New Yorker 89 (7): 24–25. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
- — (April 13, 2015). "New translation". The Talk of the Town. The Musical Life. The New Yorker 91 (8): 25. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
- ^ "Alec Wilkinson". Retrieved 15 May 2009.
- ^ Hellman, David (March 18, 2007). "Adventurer with a Maverick Streak". SF Gate.com. Retrieved Sep 30, 2010.
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- Our far-flung correspondents: The Crossing, New Yorker, June 27, 2005
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Most parents naturally squirm at the TV concept of an "adult cartoon." That goes double for shows with simplistic animation or cute cuddly animal characters, which are low-hanging fruit for the littlest children to pick. The first show of this kind was "South Park," which looks like a kindergarten art project but sounds like a bad day at a juvenile delinquency center.
Now NBC has unveiled "Father of the Pride," which looks like "Shrek" but sounds as sad and horny as last year's failed Whoopi Goldberg sitcom. The concept behind the show -- a cartoon about the lions in Siegfried and Roy's Las Vegas lion-tamer act -- could be adorable with a family theme. Just how difficult would that be? For NBC, it's apparently impossible. They've found a way to sewagize even this.
But this show is all about getting what they call "zoom zoom in the boom boom." In this new show's first episode, Larry the Lion heads home to have sex with his wife because she's in heat. He roars, "Hey, Big Daddy's home, and he's ready for loving! It may be 9 o'clock in New York, but right here, it's mountin' time!" When his wife declines, he tries spray-painting a happy face on his nipples and belly with whipped cream.
Later, Larry hears a slurping noise and looks down to find a cat licking his crotch area. The cat, in a male voice, says, "What? Your wife ain't doing it. I'm all you got, sunshine." If that's not enough, Larry's daughter says, "I'm on my way to a party by the reptile house. I probably won't take drugs, but I won't really know until I get there." Still focusing on getting the love life going, Dad dismisses his daughter with: "That's fine. See you later." The first episode's sophisticated dialogue lines included "don't look at my ass" and "I got stuck with this bitch."
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Garfield, located in the northeastern part of the state, has been marked as a Superfund site by the EPA after three tons of hexavalent chromium leaked from a tank in December 1983. Due to inaction by the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), only 30 percent of the spill was cleaned at the time, leaving a plume of the chemical to drift beneath the city, unbeknownst to its residents.
Chromium is a cancer-causing chemical that can also damage the nervous system, and since the disaster, it has frequently shown up in homeowners basements, a gas station, a car repair shop, and was responsible for the closing of one of the city's fire stations, Garfield Fire Company 3.
Now, the demolition of the chemical's point of origin - the electroplating plant - is expected to begin on October 1. U.S. EPA regional administrator Judith Enck announced at the press conference that destroying the building is the first step in getting this Superfund site clean, and that it will be an important day for Garfield.
Garfield's new mayor, Democrat Joseph Delaney (who replaced Republican Frank Calendriello), was also on hand at the conference. The mayor has been credited with making several moves to improve the infrastructure and environmental health in Garfield.
"The EPA has done a great deal of work since 2002 to reduce the health risks to the people who live and work in the area of Garfield affected by chromium-contaminated groundwater," said Enck. "Today we're pleased to announce that we're ready to take a step forward in the long-term cleanup of the Garfield superfund site."
Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-N.J., said he would fight for resources for the EPA to clean up Garfield, as well as other contaminated sites in New Jersey. "We don't have a choice about the science of what we're doing. To deny it is not only foolish, but a hazard to the people of Garfield." He also touched on the many Republicans who want to dismantle President Obama's EPA, saying pointedly, "The people who talk about doing away with the EPA need their heads examined, and I want to call them out on it."
A public meeting to discuss both the contamination and demolition will be held on the evening of September 10 at the Garfield Middle School on Lanza Avenue, according to city manager Tom Duch. Duch added that residents' questions and concerns would be addressed and answered.
In addition to being a major step, the demolition is also important because initial sampling showed that parts of the building, its basement, and the soil beneath it are all contaminated. The process is expected to be a month long, and the EPA is preparing for it by removing drums of other hazardous materials left in the plant when it closed down years ago.
This is a project that has only been greenlighted almost three decades after the disaster, and is a sobering reminder of the ineptitude on the part of the N.J. DEP, which oversaw the situation before the EPA stepped in.
"The DEP dragged their feet," said Jennie Coulter, whose Grand Street house was among those with a contaminated basement. "They could have solved this 20, 30 years ago."
Duch admitted the DEP had severely underestimated the issue for years. The probe into the factory spill took "far too long," he said. "There's no getting past that."
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Dynastic Management
Caselli, Francesco, Gennaioli, Nicola, Economic Inquiry
There is broad agreement that differences in aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) constitute a large fraction of the existing cross-country differences in per-capita income. That is, not only do poor countries have fewer productive resources, such as physical and human capital, but they also employ them less effectively than rich countries. The current consensus is that TFP differences account for upwards of 50% of income inequality. (1) Existing attempts to explain this fact emphasize lags in technology diffusion, geography, vested interests and other institutional failures, and several other causes. We believe, however, that a potentially critical source of inefficiency has so far been largely overlooked by the TFP literature: failures of meritocracy.
Individuals are manifestly heterogeneous in their decision-making skills. Differences across countries in the accuracy with which the best decision makers are selected for managerial responsibilities--differences in meritocracy--can result into differences in the returns countries reap from their productive resources-differences in TFP. Meritocracy can fail spectacularly in the public sector (Caselli and Morelli 2004). But meritocracy can also fail in the private sector. This paper studies the macroeconomic causes and consequences of an important private-sector non-meritocratic practice: the inter-generational transmission of managerial responsibilities in family firms, a Phenomenon that we call dynastic management. (2)
As we document in Section II, the incidence of dynastic management is the most striking difference in corporate-governance arrangements between rich and poor countries, as the latter rely much more on the dynastic family firm, where ownership and control are passed on across generations of the same family. We argue that this systematic difference may be a proximate source of TFP differences: even allowing for self-selected initiators of family businesses, as long as managerial talent is not perfectly correlated across generations, assets will sooner or later end up "in the wrong hands," that is those of a managerially inept descendant. If most firms in an economy are managed dynastically, therefore, aggregate TFP may be negatively affected.
But why is dynastic management more prevalent in some countries than others? In our model, we focus on financial frictions. First, financial frictions hinder the working of the market for corporate control, which is a key determinant of the incidence of dynastic management. Untalented heirs of family firms would like to transfer control to new talented owners (or hire talented managers). However, when financial markets are underdeveloped, it is difficult for talented outsiders to obtain financing to take over incumbent firms. Furthermore, untalented firm owners have little scope for preventing outside managers from appropriating the firm's profits, that is, it is difficult to separate ownership and control. In addition, poorly working financial markets hinder capital mobility. In principle, talented entrepreneurs could bid up the interest rate and drive untalented managers out of capital markets, but financial frictions dampen this mechanism. As a result of both effects, the incidence of dynastic management will be more severe in developing countries precisely because they suffer from less developed financial markets. (3,4)
We study a growth model where dynastic management arises endogenously as a consequence of financial frictions, and look at the consequences of this failure of meritocracy for TFP, capital accumulation, and other macroeconomic variables. A plausible parametrization of our model is able to generate a cross-country dispersion of TFP which is roughly one-third as large as the one observed in the data. Interestingly, both the market for control and capital mobility appear to significantly contribute to the overall effect of financial frictions. …


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Police have issued an AMBER ALERT for a missing 10-month-old girl. Officials are looking for Lisa Irwin who was last seen in her crib at approximately 10:30 p.m. Monday night at a residence in the 3600 block of North Lister in Kansas City, Missouri.
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- blonde hair
- blue eyes
- 30-inches tall
- weighs 26-30 lbs.
- last seen wearing purple shorts/pants with white kittens printed.
According to a police spokesperson, officers believe a suspect "entered/exited through a bedroom window." They also add that evidence suggest the child has been abducted.
Anyone with information needs to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.
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A number of college basketball teams will be honoring "Princess Lacey" for Coaches vs. Cancer Week. Lacey Holsworth, a Michigan State fan known to many as "Princess Lacey," passed away in April 2014 after a battle with cancer at the age of 8. Her Spartans' fandom and relationship with former MSU star Adreian Payne captured the hearts of college basketball fans everywhere...
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There's not much more that can be said about the relationship shared by Adreian Payne and Lacey Holsworth, the eight-year-old girl who captured America's heart before losing her battle with cancer. Today, Payne graduated from Michigan State University. There to support him was Lacey's family. Graduation Day for @adreian_payne w/family of @adorablelacey. @DickieV @msu_basketball...
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In celebration of Lacey Holsworth's life on Thursday night at the Breslin Center, Adreian Payne performed a silent dunk.
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Lacey Holsworth, the inspirational and brave Michigan State Spartans superfan whose lengthy battle with neuroblastoma became a national news story after she was befriended by members of the Spartans basketball team, specifically Adreian Payne, reportedly passed away Tuesday night, according to a report from the Detroit Free-Press. She was eight years old. A post to […] The post...
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I probably shouldn't even be writing this right now — but I have to get my thoughts out so I can actually get some work done today. I simply can't get Lacey Holsworth, Adreian Payne and the entire Holsworth family out of my mind. I see her as she stands with Payne and her family on senior night in East Lansing. Always smiling. Lacey Holsworth is surrounded by her family, and...
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If you're not familiar with the story of Adreain Payne and Lacey Holsworth, an eight-year-old battling cancer, it is one worth reading up on. Holsworth and Payne bonded after the Michigan State basketball team paid Holsworth a visit while was in the hospital, and the two have become extremely close since. Their friendship is such a remarkable one that Holsworth more or less has...
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A little more than two years ago, Michigan State basketball standout Adreian Payne met a beautiful young cancer patient fighting for her life when the team made a community-service hospital visit. On Thursday night, 8-year-old Lacey Holsworth will accompany Payne during a Senior Night ceremony for the Spartans' final home game of the season, against Iowa. Payne, projected as a first...
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On Tuesday, at his weekly press conference, Michigan State veteran head basketball coach Tom Izzo gave fans of his program some news they've been waiting to hear for quite some time. "Looking forward to getting Adreian back," Izzo said. "To what degree? He practiced last night, probably a third of the practice. I think he looked pretty good as far as moving on that...
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Dr Donald Axelrod (January 15, 1916 – March 16, 1999) was Professor Emeritus and former chairman of the Department of Public Administration & Policy at the State University of New York, Albany (SUNYA).
He authored several books, including Budgeting for Modern Government and Shadow Government: The Hidden World of Public Authorities. Axelrod was a member of the American Society of Public Administration.
Donald Axelrod died on March 16, 1999, at his home in Slingerlands, New York, after a long battle with cancer, aged 83. He was survived by his wife, Selma Sachs Axelrod (November 4, 1916 - January 9, 2009) and their children, Rosemary and Jonathan.[1]
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29 The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
30 The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
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This book investigates the possible ways of improvement by applying more sophisticated electronic structure methods as well as corrections and alternatives to the supercell model. In particular, the merits of hybrid and screened functionals, as well as of the +U methods are assessed in comparison to various perturbative and Quantum Monte Carlo many body theories. The inclusion of excitonic effects is also discussed by way of solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation or… (more)
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Maybe people just don't know how to party anymore, but I didn't come across vomit once at the Treasure Island Music Festival. The crowd's vibe was more or less well-behaved all weekend -- pretty chill considering how many people were clustered on the island for the fests' seventh successful installment.
The organizers rely on big names, the unique setting, a variety of vendors, and plenty of distracting flash (including the nearly iconic 60-foot Ferris wheel you can ride at $5 a pop) in order to keep this thing a destination. Read more »
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I have never had so much body hair in my life. I'm 21 weeks and i shave like 3 times a week. Not only does is grow extremely fast, it also shows up in places it never has. My belly, the back of my thighs, and embarrassed to say...my butt. I hopt this goes away after the baby because if not i'm going to have some serious hair removal bills.
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My body is a fur coat I cannot remove. I have to have it cold at night so I don't get my body fur wet from sweat.
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lol.It's the worst. Shaving is exhausting, not to mention extemely scary seeing as if i can't see most of the parts because my belly is in the way.lol Somehow i work up the strength to do it because it makes me feel even worse about my changing body.Eventually my bf is going to have to take over. I made him promise.
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Yeah...I'm almost 21 weeks and uh..def haven't had the urge to shave a thing. I'll start to think about doing it all and getting it over with, but it never happens. I am the really hairy Italian guy that leaves his shirt open with the curly flowing hair, except its my vagina instead of my chest. I actually give myself a high five when I shave my armpits. Maybe I should just braid it.
I had my feet up in the window today on our way home and I could literally feel the wind going through each leg hair! Ugh! There's just no point in it with it growing back so fast, plus, im not in shorts anymore!
Don't even wanna talk about my belly! Ha!
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