No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps …

Margaret Mead
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. ✨ Future Families. Margaret Mead in The American People in the Age of Kennedy edited by David M. Kennedy (p. 108), 1973.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. ✨ Future Families. Margaret Mead in The American People in the Age of Kennedy edited by David M. Kennedy (p. 108), 1973.

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