Who doesn't like to be the center for concern? A second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of their life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. And I have searched myself for the possibility with a kind of horror... My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby. I knew ten or twelve thousand miles driving in a truck, alone and unattended, over every kind of road, would be hard work, but to me it represented the antidote for the poison of the professional sick man.
-John Steinbeck, Travels With Charlie In Search of America
if he liked it then he shoulda put a ring on it.
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