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It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time -- but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms . . .
Midge Decter
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Midge Decter
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: July 25
Journalist
Non-Fiction Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Midge Rosenthal Decter
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Trivial
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