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I've also had a poke around the web, and I couldn't find anything at all which suggested his relationship with the Liddell girls went beyond that of a lonely man who found solace in the pleasure of watching other people's children develop. I can understand that, because I don't have any children and I do rather like watching my friends' kids grow up. Haven't been tempted to write any famous childrens' books on the strength of that, though!  Perhaps if I changed my name I could become an Oxford "Don" and be able to laze around all day ... 
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I could become an Oxford "Don" Lemme make you an offah ya cant refuse... 
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watching my friends' kids grow up.
Hear! Hear!* I spent a winter with a family that had a two year old and a three year old, both girls. They were very tight and I learned more that winter about child development and language acquisition than I could have hoped to in any classroom.
* That was cross threading!
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I reiterate:
CapK, Faldage: and time you want to bask in the joy of witnesses child development, I've got two loaners ready to go.
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I reiterate:
CapK, Faldage: and time you want to bask in the joy of witnesses child development, I've got two loaners ready to go.I reiterate: Lemme me you an offah ya cant refuse
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bask in the joy of witnesses child development
This is, of course, best done from the detachment of pseudo-unclehood. Direct responsibility for the nurture of the child(ren) is strictly forbidden.
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This is, of course, best done from the detachment of pseudo-unclehood.
Nay, sir, being 14 years older than one's sister is surely much better.
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Let me add my voice belatedly to the chorus of greetings!
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And then there is the fact that his position and standing as a don and a clergyman (he was an ordained deacon) would be seriously jeopardized at the slightest hint of scandal. And the father of the Liddell girls was master of his college. No, I believe that while some aspects of his relationship with Alice seem very strange and possibly perverted to us who have seen or heard so much in our modern era of no-holds-barred sexuality, you have to consider Victorian sentimentality, much of which is almost incomprehensible to us today.
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