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Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
Author
Poet
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Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
Children
Thousands
Years
Planet
Things
Planets
Life
Learn
People
Helping
Given
Rapidly
Order
Hundreds
Live
Forced

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