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“Youth isn't wasted on the young, literature is.”
― Julia Claiborne Johnson, Be Frank With Me

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“With children in the house, you’re on call around the clock whether you like it or not. You don’t get the luxury of enough sleep when that was what you needed most to keep yourself from going over the edge.”
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“My mother always said that the best way to connect with anybody who was a mother was to find a way to compliment her child.”
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