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This timely advice arrived in my mailbox today. Are you a beloved queen or a despised dictator? Don't make excuses that "because only cruelty works". It's a lie. Honestly, I lost my patience too much lately with a three year old in the house. Next time I'll tell him to get his toys out of my living room for the one-hundreth time a day in a whisper with a smile on my face. I hope.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar