Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity. (Lionel Shriver)

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

Lionel Shriver

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