"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.“


-Marcelene Cox

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Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

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