My kids are no smarter than similar kids their age from the inner city.

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But in keeping with his home city's most famous export, Davies showed an inner steel from a young age.

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She doesn't sugarcoat the very real challenges that come with age physical limitations, loss of loved ones, illness but there's good stuff, too, like wisdom, courage and a rich inner life that gets better as we age.

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