If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you any…

Neil Gaiman
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If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. ✨ Neil Gaiman (2016). The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, p.20, HarperCollins
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