"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings."

Family, Mother, Children, Mothers

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"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings."

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