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People say all the time that they__ do anything for the people they love. But would you really? Would you do anything? Would you give everything? I don__ know that a child knows that kind of selfless love. A mother, yes. A mother will clutch her children and jump from a moving car to keep them from harm. She will do it without thinking. But I don__ think the child knows how to do that, not instinctively. It__ something the child has to learn.
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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People say all the time that they__ do anything for the people they love. But would you really? Would you do anything? Would you give everything? I don__ know that a child knows that kind of selfless love. A mother, yes. A mother will clutch her children and jump from a moving car to keep them from harm. She will do it without thinking. But I don__ think the child knows how to do that, not instinctively. It__ something the child has to learn.
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