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Now I know that much of parenthood is watching and waiting for the chick to fall into harm's way, watching and waiting for the cats and the cold nights. The joyous enterprise has an undercurrent of terror.

Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen (b. 1952), U.S. journalist, columnist, author. The New York Times, sect. 1, p. 21 (June 18, 1994).

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