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When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

Polly Horvath

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Polly Horvath
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 30
Author
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Kalamazoo
Michigan
Children
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Never
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Grownup
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Grownups
Give
Jealous
Everything
Credit
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Adults

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