I

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　　my head as he read that poem. It was only ten lines. But it seemed to take hours. Then I heard him dropping the poem back on the table. Now came the moment of

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　　.

　　“I think it’s terrible,” he said.

　　I couldn’t look up. My eyes were getting

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　　.

　　“Ben, these are the first lines of poetry he’s ever written,” my mother was saying. “He needs

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　　.”

　　“I don’t know why.” My father held his ground. “Isn’t there enough awful poetry in the world already?”

　　I couldn’t

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　　it another second. I ran from the dining room crying. Up in my room I

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　　myself on the bed and cried the worst of the

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　　out of me.

　　That may have been the end of the story, but not of its

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　　for me. I realized how fortunate I had been. I had a mother who said, “I think it’s wonderful!” and a father who drove me to hear with “I think it’s

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　　.”

　　Every one of us needs that mother force, from which all

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　　flows; and yet the mother force alone is incomplete. It needs the balance of the force that

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