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Sons
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“No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.”
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“Sons do not need you. / They're always out of your reach; / Walking strange waters.”
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“However kind sons may be disposed to be, they cannot be daughters to a Mother.”
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“Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.'”
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“Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.”
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“Wherever my son is, I do not know. / This is the womb that carried him, / like a stone cave / lived in by a tiger and now abandoned. / It is on the battlefield that you will find him.”
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“Indeed, the tie is stronger than that between father and son and father and daughter ... The bond is also more complex than the one between mother and daughter. For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.”