"My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood."

Family, Mother, Father, Thought, People

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"My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood."

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"It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him."

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