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Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

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Alice Mattison
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 18
Novelist
New York City
New York
Accepted
Certainly
Five
Children
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Seventies
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