All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Yout... - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."

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