Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.Martha Beck
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
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Adults under threat feel like children.
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
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