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[While in the car with the kids, discussing how it was 12:12 on 12/12/12.]

Samson (12): Oh! When is the next one?

Mom: We won't have another one like that until 1:01 on 1/1/3001.

Monica (15): I don't think we'll still be here then.

Mom: I don't plan to be here. I'd be almost 140.

Monica: I mean, I don't think the world will be here.

Mom: Don't you?

Monica: “Chosen generation,” mom.

Mom: Yea, well I'm the “chosen generation,” too, and I'm almost 50.

Monica: Yea, but we're super chosen. Don't deny it.

Alison Moore Smith is a 61-year-old entrepreneur who graduated from BYU in 1987. She has been (very happily) married to Samuel M. Smith for 40 years. They are parents of six incredible children and grandparents to two astounding grandsons. She is the author of The 7 Success Habits of Homeschoolers.