"I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control."

Family, Mother, Thought, Control, Birthcontrol

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"But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do."

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"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

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"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

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