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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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