The most perplexing aspect of being a parent is that you can (almost) never discern when or why a child will follow your directives, as opposed to hear what you direct him to do and then do the exact opposite.

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But this declaration was as unsettling then as Blair's undertaking to do just the opposite would later turn out to be, and the gossip, the demands and the speculation soon began that she should retire.

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