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There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
LA
California
Jane Graves Smiley
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Several
Driving
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Worst
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Children

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