Imagine the fear, and the proudly concealed worry, of a Masai warrior as he takes his son out onto the veldt, as part of the transition to manhood, to meet his first pride of lions.
Or the apprehension of a Chilean miner, high in the unforgiving Andes, as he watches his son go into the 1000-metre deep pit which has, one by one, claimed the lives of his friends.
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