Children's beauty and their vulnerability to abuse have become linked in a volatile mixture of protectiveness and fear.

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Great ideas dry up and go away (underground or to other enterprises), and great execution evaporates, a victim of turf wars, unclear direction, self-protectiveness and lack of accountability.

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They're acting out their protectiveness toward a great Republic.

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