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Do Your Children Do Stupid Things?

From: Robert Karl Skoglund
Length: :56

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Piece Description

How perfect can you expect a child to be?

Transcript

What have your kids done that you wish they hadn?t done? Did your daughter get drunk and smash up a car? Did your son meet a voluptuous girl who got him to join a cult? Did your daughter put a ring in your granddaughter?s nose? Do your children get so much sun you know they?ll have skin cancer by the time they?re 50? Did your son join the army where he?ll earn $30,000 or so a year and risk having a leg blown off, when he could have signed up with the mercenaries and gone to the exact same place and had his leg blown off for $170,000 a year? How can your children have such good genes and still do such stupid things?
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