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Book Review of IF WE'D WANTED QUIET, WE WOULD HAVE RAISED GOLDFISH

IF WE'D WANTED QUIET, WE WOULD HAVE RAISED GOLDFISH
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Get ready for an emotional experience. This collection of poems about having and raising children will move you to laughter or tears, even if you haven't read a poem since you were in school.

Selected for their ability to evoke feelings every parent has had in words every parent can understand, the poems in this book cover the entire range of experience from conception to caring for your aging parents. They will linger in your memory long after you've read them.

Open this book and read the first poem you see. Don't be surprised when you turn the page and keep reading -- and then find wanting to share this book with others.