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  • Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

    "Jonathan Safran Foer: 'I'm Not So Interested in the Comforting Kind of Religion'". Calvin College's Festival on Faith & Writing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, www.csmonitor.com. April 23, 2012.