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Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

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Kelley Armstrong
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
Novelist
Writer
city of Sudbury
Sarah
Childhood
Ignorance
Conversation
Kids
Eavesdrop
Conversations
Doomed
Adult
Adults

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