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Watch Beckham Bend It In Paris

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PARIS - David Beckham has finally made his much anticipated debut in Paris, almost one month after signing for Paris Saint-Germain. Here's Becks warming up before Sunday's kick-off.

Although he only played for the last 14 minutes of Sunday night's game, Becks was finally given a chance to get his much-advertized bottom off the freezing bench and show he could still be of use.

Here's his looping pass to Jeremy Menez (1'15), who then knocked the ball off Zlatan Ibrahimovic"s knee to score PSG's second goal.

Cuteness ensued:

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Do We Need Our Parents When We Grow Up? Doubts Of A Young Father

As his son grows older, Argentine journalist Ignacio Pereyra wonders when a father is no longer necessary.

Do We Need Our Parents When We Grow Up? Doubts Of A Young Father

"Is it true that when I am older I won’t need a papá?," asked the author's son.

Ignacio Pereyra

It’s 2am, on a Wednesday. I am trying to write about anything but Lorenzo (my eldest son), who at four years old is one of the exclusive protagonists of this newsletter.

You see, I have a whole folder full of drafts — all written and ready to go, but not yet published. There’s 30 of them, alternatively titled: “Women who take on tasks because they think they can do them better than men”; “As a father, you’ll always be doing something wrong”; “Friendship between men”; “Impressing everyone”; “Wanderlust, or the crisis of monogamy”, “We do it like this because daddy say so”.

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