When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

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Rose Kennedy was a 19th-century American philanthropist, mother of john f. kennedy. Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American philanthropist, socialite, and matriarch of the Kennedy family. She was deeply embedded in the "lace curtain" Irish-American community in Boston. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it

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