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You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you__ given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn__ know the outcome for a long time.
Meg Wolitzer The Ten-Year Nap
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You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you__ given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn__ know the outcome for a long time.
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Meg Wolitzer

The Ten-Year Nap

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