People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness.
No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.
The Handmaid's Tale
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No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well.
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