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Children learn early in life that they cannot always count on their parents’ attention much less their smiles, a lesson in human unpredictability that has to be learned over and over again.

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Yi-Fu Tuan (5 December 1930 – 10 August 2022) was a Chinese-American writer and geographer.

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