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" Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. "

Maurice Sendak

New

Painful

Anxiety

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Great

Something

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Purpose

Need

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Christian

Nobody

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