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Nearly everyone's son wants to be a baseball player. Why not? What other profession could he choose where he can slide around in the dirt, never work when it rains and spit whenever he wants?

— Erma Bombeck

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The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

Title of book (1976)

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression (1970)

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

TIME (1984)

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

Book title (1978)

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else*

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