Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. T…

Orson Scott Card
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Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right. ✨ Orson Scott Card (2009). Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet, p.20, Macmillan
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