Parents
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“Holy crap, am I really pregnant?” At only 18 years old, she was trembling with the fear that she would have to be responsible for another life. Years later, Jamie Buchanan’s greatest fear for her family is just that her eldest daughter Summer Buchanan will melt the ice cream again. “We usually leave it out on the table by emily chao [to melt a little], but [Summer] doesn’t photo by sierra whitlock like to do that. So she puts it into the microwave and presses the popcorn button,” says Jamie’s son, Brock Buchanan. “[Summer] opened it up and [said], ‘Brock, we’re not having ice cream, we’re having milkshakes.’”
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