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***Warning: Use of firearms/gunpoint***Earl Dennis Müller sat in his car in front of the park on Main St just down the street from his tiny office. He drank his coffee from his stainless steel thermos as he watched the children laugh and climb over the playground equipment. Along the park’s rubber mat edges, parents conversed in groups. Earl identified the various parents in each subgroup. The helicopter parents and the gossipers, mostly stay-at-home mothers, spend their days in the house, craving social interaction. The helicopter pare...
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