My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience. (Nicholas A. Christakis)

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

Nicholas A. Christakis

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