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Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you d

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you dont want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but its also a parents worst nightmare: That they wont need you. Its like the real tragedy of parenting. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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