Often, my daughter says to me, in exasperation, “Why is she like this!” referring to her daughter’s less than compliant behavior, which is exactly like the less than compliant behavior she exhibited as a little girl. “They don’t call it reproduction for nothing,” I usually say, which is a variation on the old adage, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” There is so much we carry around inside of us, both good and not so good, that is inevitably passed on to our progeny. “Be fruitful and multiply,” God said to man in the first chapter of Genesis, because he wanted more of us. Every