"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.“


-Bill Cosby

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My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

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