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Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

Charles de Lint

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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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