Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be…

Margaret Atwood
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Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2003). The Penelopiad, p.24, Canongate Books
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