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Parenting, having and raising children, including but not limited to the act of giving birth is the ultimate example. There are many "piano lessons" along that journey.

Sometimes you have to eat a shit sandwich.

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Sure, but you don’t have to accept that they’re the only thing on the menu.

Sure, you can take off at 2am and leave a screaming 2 month old child in a room and never come back, because you have been trying for hours to stop it from crying and it is just too fucking hard - just like you can walk out of your piano lesson and never go back.

Or you can reach for the sandwich.

If piano lessons is what trained you not to abandon a crying baby, I'm not sure to say.

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