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Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
Mother
Human
Humans
Sometimes
Children
Thing
Mothers
Beings
Wrong

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