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Anxiety, mostly, once you have kids.
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Warmth and confidence.
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I’d take back some dumb shit I said when I had no audience and found that being shocking made people laugh.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Maybe if we all admire her hard enough, she’ll live beyond this incredibly disturbing era.
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