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And, to lift the depression by the preceding entry…a very nice story from the LA Times about a family with 16 children. <\/a>I loved this detail:<\/p>\n

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"Eight years old was the magic age," said Jerome Santucci, 33. "You got a watch and a knife at your dinner setting, and you went on the list of chores. So you now had privileges and responsibilities."<\/p>\n

The kids remember patience, feeling important to their parents and \u2014 astonishingly, to some \u2014 feeling like individuals even in a noisy house with big personalities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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