Fredrik Backman quote — “The children's hobbies aren't only the children's hobbies

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The children's hobbies aren't only the children's hobbies - the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much, paying out such huge amounts of money, that their significance eats its way even into adult brains. They started to symbolize other things compensating for or reinforcing the parents' own failures.

Fredrik Backman Beartown children hobbies parents

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