“So 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

Taylor McAden, Chapter 18, p. 200
2000s, The Rescue (2000)

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