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Every mother engages in an act of parenting they know isn’t a great idea. They allow something to slide. And this is the thing that causes the child to develop a personality and also all their worst inclinations and predispositions and habits. The mother’s neglect seals the child’s doom. Thus we can safely blame all crimes on mothers.
That was perhaps a definition of innocence: not knowing what one was capable of.
To be alive is to be in a constant state of revolution.
