My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
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I was surprised to find my own family in this book.
This afternoon I was about to list the similarities, but was silently checked by this commandment: ‘Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.’
It is enough to say, Read it.