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"...No doubt about it, it was great fun being a mother. It was like having your own life over again--with a great deal of the agonies of youth left out. Since you knew how little some things mattered, you could smile indulgently over the crises that arose.

"But really, Mother," Sarah would say intensely, "it's frightfully serious. You mustn't smile. Nadia feels that the whole of her future is at stake!"

But at forty-one, one had learned that one's whole future was very seldom at stake. Life was far more elastic and resilient than one had once chosen to think.

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