Carolina QuotesSo many people these days, it seemed, believed that these things (personal fulfillment and self-esteem) could come only from work, not from parenting, and many people believed that having children had nothing to do with raising them.
Nicholas Sparks Carolinian
Source
Taylor McAden, Chapter 18, p. 200
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- The Rescue (2000)
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- 2000
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- p. 200
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