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"Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro."
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"You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!"
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