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Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.

— Barbara Kingsolver Prodigal Summer (2000)

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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

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