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Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.

Allison Pearson

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Allison Pearson
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 22
Author
Journalist
Caerfyrddin
Best
Nothing
Riddle
Children
Proof
Thing
Answer
Life
Answers
Impossible
Dies
Else

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