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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment...more

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

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Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what t...more