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It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often.

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
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