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" What the Americans want to see is life in their drama. Life of all sorts: hard lives, easy lives, or lives which, like most of ours, are a mixture of the two. "

Julian Fellowes

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Life

Hard

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Parents

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Most

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Boundaries

People

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Success

Never

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