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A Case of the Human Condition: Respect for Our Undeserving Elders

“Move,” said my 6-year-old son Peter to his grandmother. “I want to get by.” My mother looked up from her book and gave my son a hard look.

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A Case of the Human Condition: Four-Year-Old Girls — The Last Bastion of Pretty

Pink dresses, powder blue dresses. Dresses with nosegays, kitty cats and sunbursts. Little girls, it seems, are the last stronghold of prettiness in today’s society.

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