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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Parent
Kills
Grows
Parenting
Father
Motherhood
Mother
Mom
Didn
Guess
Would
Daughter
Kill
Quicker
Grow
Fatherhood

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