You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. (Lois McMaster Bujold)

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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