A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small t — Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small t — Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small t — Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small t — Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small t — Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
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A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people.

— Anna Quindlen, Every Last One
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