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SHAFTLING (N.) ‘shaft-ling  A child in a not especially dysfunctional family who gets less nurturing than the others for obscure reasons. Usage: Maddie’s rowdy brothers got more attention from her parents than she did. But she didn’t mind being the shaftling, she decided, because she was good at taking care of herself and had a lot of friends. Not that her parents seemed to notice. Text © Liesl Schillinger 7/3/2009 Image ©Elizabeth Zechel, 6/20/2011

SHAFTLING (N.) ‘shaft-ling  A child in a not especially dysfunctional family who gets less nurturing than the others for obscure reasons. Usage: Maddie’s rowdy brothers got more attention from her parents than she did. But she didn’t mind being the shaftling, she decided, because she was good at taking care of herself and had a lot of friends. Not that her parents seemed to notice.

Text © Liesl Schillinger 7/3/2009 Image ©Elizabeth Zechel, 6/20/2011

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