Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words ‘to father’ have such a different meaning from the words ‘to mother’.

Claire Fuller
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Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words ‘to father’ have such a different meaning from the words ‘to mother’. Flora was a little girl who always wanted to know why she had different words for mother and father, but had the same word for both.

Source: Swimming Lessons

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