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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Right
Surely
Long
Stay
Needed
Jobs
Running
Mother
Mama
Kids
Parenting
Better
Motherhood

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