I am 18, and I realize that me parents affected my a lot. How could they not? Their entire job as parents is to ready me for the real world, both in morals, and being a benefit to society.
On another note, I constatly find myself sounding exactly like my father...Similar thought/speach paterns etc. Scares the hall out of me every time...
(My father is extremely fair and well balanced... But he never hesitated to use force when it became obviouse that nothing else was going to work...Didn't ever take long with me
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