The problem with producing anything, from children to academic work, is that after a very short time you lose control. Your progeny run amok, doing all sorts of things you didn't expect. You were there at the conception and proud at the birth; but then your pride and joy gradually drifts away, taking on a life of its own, being used by others in ways you never meant, and sometimes not behaving at all how you had intended. This has happened with the Calgary-Cambridge guides: to me, they seem to have entered their teenage years, irritating and exciting in equal measure.
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