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Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.

Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
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Journalist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
Keeping
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Kids
Sometimes
World
Perilous
Delusion
Kitchen

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