“It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.”

— Kage Baker, book The Life of the World to Come

Source: The Life of the World to Come (2004), Chapter 4, “Smart Alec” (p. 55)

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