In Drew Dernavich’s cartoon, a young couple stands over a crib. Someone, presumably their baby, has been drawing tally marks on the wall next to the crib. The father is speaking. Convicts mark the passage of time by scratching tally marks on the walls of their prison cells, so all my captions draw a connection…
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