“Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.”

—  Anthony Powell , A Dance to the Music of Time

A Buyer's Market (1952), ch. 2.
A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975)

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