But the first world they (children) know is still the most important. If his home is happy-- if a kid is cared about, not just for-- he can cope. When I see the "Ten Most Wanted" lists-- the WANTED posters-- I always have this thought. If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be WANTED now.
I got this book for 50¢ at a charity sale, and truthfully had very small expectations for it, but it's quickly becoming one of my favorites.
... it is with wistful irony that we hear the words of the past and they sound like the words that we hear in the present... must be a powerful echo to have crossed all those years...
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