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Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

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But kids don't stay where they're supposed to. You turn around and find her not in the bedroom but hiding in a closet; you turn around and see she's n...more

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(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a t...more

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Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven? I mean, if it's Heaven, you should be at your beauty-queen best, and I doubt that all the ...more

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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

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Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

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If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be fi...more

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Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

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Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And...more

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If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you...more

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They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they co...more