BROOK: Our friends gave us their baby, nine-month old Jack, for 24 hours in our care. JILL: They were more than willing to get rid of their son for 24 hours.

We stopped by 30 Rock to discuss the project with Matt and Savannah and dodge his question about who was responsible for our original break-up. Jill: “You’ll have to read the book!”

BROOK: On a family vacation the week before starting college, I nearly drowned snorkeling. My mask broke in shallow water and I stood up in a bed of sea urchins. With each desperate step their needles filled my feet with unbearable pain; it got so bad that I couldn’t use my legs to kick. I held my mask with one hand, leaving me just one...

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BROOK: We found a random alarm app and set it to ring three times between 11 P.M. and 8 A.M. We also put fourteen scraps of paper in a bowl, each slip describing a task we’d have to complete when the alarm went off during the night. It was our way of mimicking the exhausted stress of raising a newborn: never letting ourselves sleep for...

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