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This line reads as comic exaggeration with a sharp family edge. It points to a childhood memory of emotional restraint, then flips into relief at the pleasure of being a grandparent, so it can be taken to mean that later generations sometimes get to repair what earlier ones could not offer. It lands at family gatherings, where tenderness arrives after awkward history.
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Originally said in English.
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