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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: novelty and an enigma, also a possibility; but a mother is like a
broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as
far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there
and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed
and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not
conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still
growing, yearning, suffering, and learning. If I meet a widow I may
ask her all about her marriage; but what son ever dreams of asking his
mother about her marriage, or could endure to hear of it without
violently breaking off the old sacred relationship between them, and
ceasing to be her child or anything more to her than the first man in
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