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NUMBER:38451
QUOTATION:A Mother’s hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you.
ATTRIBUTION:Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978), U.S. poet, author. The Adversary, A Certain Age (1960).
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
 
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