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Old 08-08-2008, 03:05 PM   #6
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.....at least until he's all growed up with kids of his own....... ...then the good times and guilt will flood back. have a reparition list ready....
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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