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My daughter Beatrix, age 11, is reading Night by Elie Wiesel for her advanced students bookclub at school because it is a great school interested in cultivating strong, fearless, readers.

This is her last year there and I’m going to miss it greatly.

Me: “The lesson here is to never marry a man or woman who can’t change their own tire.”

Beatrix, age 11: “How about I never worry who I marry because I can change my own tire.”