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And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good care of yourself, and you will learn to take good care of others-and, someday, you'll see how those two things are exactly the same.

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Katherine Center
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 4
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Katherine Sherar Pannill Center
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