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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity,...more