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" I would infinitely prefer a daughter. "
Maurice Sendak
Daughter
Infinitely
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" I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay? "
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