My father made me at times feel unimportant to him. I played sports. He went to one game. Out of all the sports that I played, he went to one game.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. But a nation that destroys its children has no future worth saving.
Pearl S. Buck — What America Means to Me