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How's the tension within?

How's the tension within?

I recently spent a week's holiday in Melbourne and had to get to my brother's coffee shop. I got lost. Disoriented, and with my 13 and 4 year old sons in tow, a pram full of shopping, and no idea, I stopped. My youngest repeated back to me fatherly wisdom, "It's okay Dad. It's alright to make mistakes. That's what you say to me." I calmly replied, "I know. I just have to fix this one." .

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