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Dec. 17, 2020
Every year, a few weeks before Christmas, Aukje Lamonica and her husband discuss gifts for their three young kids. The middle child wants some new Legos, the youngest wants a scooter. Is this the holiday when the oldest gets a playstation?
Her husband suggested something very different this year.
“Aukje,” he said. “Should we revisit the bunnies?”
The older kids, ages 7 and 9, have been asking for pet bunnies for years. Lamonica, a professor of public health, never seriously considered it. Rabbits seemed like a lot of work.
But as the pandemic has worn on with her children in virtual school, barred from sports and birthday parties she’s been looking for some way to make it up to them.