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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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