| True, residential care does not come cheaply, but having seen how well my mother was treated, I do not begrudge one penny. |
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| I saw my mother sitting in her wicker rocking chair by the bay window with a book on one armrest and her knitting kit on the other. |
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| Some time in the 80s my mother came up with what she thought was a beezer idea for a restaurant. |
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| It's not a real bed, just a rollaway bed the landlord lent us until my mother buys new furniture. |
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| When I was little, my mother had a cleaner come around who was also an Avon lady in her spare time. |
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| When my mother called their attention back to discuss the war, I found piles of trinkets before me. |
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| I have found that, with my mother nursing me again, we have grown closer, even though my argumentative manner hasn't waned with my health. |
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| The door to the root cellar from the kitchen was open, and my mother emerged with a handful of small onions. |
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| How exquisite she would look in the rope of garnet beads my mother gave me years ago for a birthday present. |
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| He was loath to be tough on debtors and my mother had to work hard in the shop to compensate for his kind-heartedness. |
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| On arrival I was handed a letter all the way from my mother in Knockmore, County Mayo, Ireland. |
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| That day I had worn this thick cotton quilted coat and pants that my mother had made me, and I looked like a round snowball. |
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| The trouble was that Juan wasn't with me when my mother found out, and I stood trial pretty lonesomely. |
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| I do not hear my mother come out of the sitting room until long after I have gone to bed. |
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| I have only seen one other face, besides the one I see when I gaze into the looking glass, who has those eyes, and that would be my mother. |
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| With that, she turned and made a beeline straight for my mother and her friends, leaving me with Sarah. |
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| And for my mother, this is a double loss, she has lost her friend, sister and daughter. |
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| For the first time ever, I realized that my mother measured my achievements against those of my sisters. |
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| I toasted myself a bagel, poured myself some orange juice and sat down across from my mother at the kitchen table. |
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| The woman who helped my mother was in a very sad situation, unfortunately not uncommon at the time. |
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| Somewhere east of the Mojave Desert my mother began to urge her brood to pay attention to the landscape. |
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| I like to imagine my mother a harried and frantic termagant, slightly crazed and in distinct need of sedation. |
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| When I was in late high school my father, having recently separated from my mother, brought his new love to come live with me and my brother. |
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| He then took a chair at the back of the room, as did my mother, and all of a sudden I was unsure of what I was meant to do or say. |
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| The very saddest day of both of our lives was on my 18th birthday when my mother took off. |
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| But it takes a blending of the romantic and the practical that is unique to my mother to spontaneously arrive at such a conclusion. |
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| But the summer my mother and her husband separated, Lorne moved out and took his entire five-piece tiger-striped couch set with him. |
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| After it had been a while and I looked fairly mopish my mother dragged me to West Hartford for a trim. |
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| As I walk downstairs, I can hear the sound of my mother banging around in the kitchen, muffled by something. |
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| I stomp into the house in my muddy boots without considering that my mother will have to fetch a mop and bucket and clean up after me. |
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| As I lay on my side, too choked with inward giggling to move into a less awkward and uncomfortable position, my mother appeared. |
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| Later, I took my mother and the cat a cup of tea and a saucer of milk, respectively. |
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| So my mother babbled some more nonsensical apologies, paid the bill, tipped the waiter, gave me a quick hug, and went dashing off. |
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| I frowned as they departed, and turned to my mother and father, sadness blearing up my eyes. |
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| All the girls were wearing go-go boots and miniskirts at a time my mother was still putting me in puff-sleeved baby-doll dresses. |
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| Sundays were bad enough for their bleakness and oppression, but Sunday was also the day when the battles between my mother and father took place. |
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| When my mother forced me and my brother to wash the dishes or vacuum our room, we managed to break a dish or two and suck marlies up the cleaner. |
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| I want to ask him why he abandoned me and my mother and why he never showed his face to me. |
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| And just like many other mothers, my mother carted us around from one activity to another encouraging us to discover our interests and talents. |
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| The sight of my mother fighting as she was manhandled into a police car outside our flat is truly something that will never leave me. |
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| My sister and I arrived the night before the surgery and found my mother full of manic energy. |
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| The only problem was, unlike my mother, my father had a temper he could lose easily. |
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| We were still living in Bronxville, and in my room there were two twin beds where my mother and I slept. |
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| My father ignored her and he grabbed me by my bad arm and pulled me towards my mother, who was still lying on the floor. |
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| I remember both my parents lost their jobs, my father was a vet, my mother a schoolteacher, simply because they were Bahais. |
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| Her voice was bland, filled with as much emotion as the oatmeal my mother gave me for my meals. |
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| My parents separated when I was 5, and I grew up living with my mother and visiting my father only once or twice a year. |
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| When my mother died, the young pastor at St. Paul's wouldn't lead a rosary at the wake. |
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| Maybe it's because of who my mother was, or maybe it's because of that ghost I've seen walking. |
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| In my father's absence he likes to visit my mother, most of the time for no reason. |
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| Just like my mother can home in on my weak points with GPS accuracy, teenagers can humiliate me with a muttered monosyllable. |
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| This time, my mother sighed, and although it's hard to tell from a sigh, she sounded angry. |
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| As I put the key in the lock for the final turn, my mother asked me if I was sad. |
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| Turning her head, my mother saw a young girl of about 16 who stood shivering in fear and quaking from emotion. |
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| Usually she was wasted, slurring her words, and my mother would come out and tell her she needed to leave. |
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| On the day we wrapped shooting the cast and crew threw a big party, but my mother had no intention of letting me go. |
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| Unfortunately my attempts to convince my father were waylaid by my mother, who chose that moment to walk in. |
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| She had black hair and an olive complexion, and was quite different from my mother. |
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| I could feel the eyes of my mother and my brothers on me, a quiet but potent hatred. |
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| The sight of my mother, my beautiful, radiant mother, was more than I could handle while pregnant and without my eldest daughter. |
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| Temporarily freed of the apron she wears in our mom-and-pop grocery store, my mother had dressed up for her downtown jaunt. |
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| I recall letters coming home to my mother asking her to sacrifice part of her income by tithing to the church. |
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| On the Atlantic crossing, I was able to exchange radiotelegrams with my mother, whose ship was steaming toward England at the same time. |
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| I vaguely remember a similarly soaked occasion when I was a child, where I tried to shake like a dog and my mother said it addled the brain. |
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| I went on two train journeys, the first to go and visit my mother, and the second to return to London again. |
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| I clearly recall ragging my mother for her expensive taste in clothing before I was even a pre-teen. |
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| For my fifth birthday I was given a model yacht, and a rag doll my mother made. |
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| I remember my mother just catching me before I handed my Sunday coat to the ragman and before someone else's offspring wore it. |
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| When I was a child, my mother would light incense and put the cakes out under the moonlight. |
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| We peered inside the window, and to my surprise, I saw my mother and father dancing to old ragtime music. |
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| She was constantly jumpy whenever someone mentioned my mother, and we eventually stopped hanging around each other. |
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| I noticed a jump rope lying on my floor from when my mother had been trying to convince me to exercise earlier in the week. |
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| Because of kidney trouble, my mother cannot observe Fast during the month of Ramadan. |
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| The lady in white wheeled my mother out of the visitors' lounge and across the lobby, with my father and me following along behind. |
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| Yes, it's a truly woeful collection that for some reason my mother decided to ship over to me here, the whole kit and caboodle. |
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| But every time my mother would punish me by whipping me with the duster, my father would rush over to shield me. |
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| I sat on the green plastic chair covered with five afghans crocheted for him each year for Christmas by my mother. |
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| Like him, I too used to go blackberrying in my youth, so that my mother could make vast quantities of jam and pies in those pre-freezer days. |
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| Great-grandma was a white-haired old lady by the time my mother came along. |
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| Many people could not understand what I saw in him and were actually afraid for my safety with him, especially my mother. |
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| In fact the Orange parade used to gather at the bottom of our road and my mother even kept us away from the window. |
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| As my mother aged she grew more and more scattered and frustrating in a number of ways. |
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| When my sister was a little girl she asked my mother the name of a certain old lady. |
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| A few minutes later my mother comes out of the store, kerchief covering her rollers and she slides into the driver's seat. |
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| From the back, hundreds of women looked like my mother, bent kneeling with bowed heads, kerchiefs or chapel veils covering their heads. |
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| The first time my mother was widowed, she was left with six male dependents. |
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| The two of them met at the Nuremberg trials, where my mother was an Allied stenographer. |
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| I had gone to visit my parents for the weekend, and my mother drove me to the Greyhound station for my return trip. |
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| At least my mother never mentioned I was a bear in the morning, getting up and ready for the school bus. |
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| If only my mother had known about such simple measures as adjusting the feeding position and soothing reassurance. |
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| My father is an Arab, my mother a Gujarati Khoja with a memsahib upbringing. |
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| Even though my father kept his store open on Saturday, he and my mother made fun of the Reform rabbi who drove to the shul down the block. |
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| I knew it was my mother before she stepped in, but what I didn't know was that her face was streaming with tears and her cheeks were all blotchy. |
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| To truly understand my mother, you'd have to go back in time and explore one of the most vivid memories I have of her. |
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| The poster is still on the wall in the bedroom my mother has turned into a shrine to my success. |
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| I was looking at the FBI files and saw that my mother had written protesting the government's witch-hunt of the labor unions. |
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| And yet, my mother would tune in every morning without fail, to follow the latest exploits of the main characters. |
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| One of my earliest memories is of my mother fanning herself in the tropical heat with a sandalwood fan. |
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| It is only because of his cunning tricks that my mother agreed to help him. |
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| In the evenings, my mother read to us, and we knitted socks and sweaters for my dad in the army, and listened to the radio. |
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| I get home from school a few days later and my mother is looking like she wants to knock my block off. |
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| They were the type of blokes that my mother dreaded I would end up knocking about with, the type who always had run-ins with the police. |
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| Then the oxygen machine arrived, the pain medications increased, and my mother slipped out of this world and into the next. |
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| When my mother died, we took her ashes out into the ocean to the same spot where we had scattered my fathers ashes a few years earlier. |
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| I love my mother and I don't think I would ever be able to bear it if I lost her. |
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| But my mother was worried about how she would feed and care for four kids who could eat only kosher food. |
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| Feeling more subdued than usual, I wandered the streets in a deep, reflective mood and thought about my mother. |
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| I remember my mother shooing us, silently, into the basement, her grabbing the cast iron skillet and standing to the side of the door. |
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| They had given me full charge of cleaning up after myself, and my mother had even refreshed my memory as to how the washing machine worked. |
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| When I was telling my mother about my sleep paralysis, I told her there was a website that said I was experiencing alien abduction. |
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| We alighted from the train and I stood nervously as my mother and her one-time true love embraced awkwardly. |
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| After some small talk my mother noticed Callie's ballet slippers that still shod my little feet. |
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| I lived my childhood and teens constantly terrified that someone would find out that my mother was barking mad and an alkie to boot. |
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| The sole bit of worldly advice my mother ever gave me was that all cats are grey in the dark. |
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| I was at an age when I still viewed my mother as wise and all-knowing, intimidating in stature and awesome in age. |
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| The three of us all laughed at my rather lame joke, then my mother continued conversation. |
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| Sandra was now half way to the trunk when my mother hurled the screen door open and came capering up to us, grinning wildly. |
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| Until then I had put up with whatever my mother considered respectable, an accurate mirror of the life she wished to be perceived as having. |
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| When my mother much later remarked on what fun I seemed to have with my own children it went to my heart. |
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| I am a heathen but will help make up a minyan if required, and said kaddish for my mother when she died. |
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| Liam had always been the annoying kid next door who my mother constantly nagged me to be nice to. |
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| He spoke a short testimonial, describing a person that sounded a little like my mother, and we mouthed a hymn. |
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| I continued to argue with my mother to try and persuade her that it is too soon and that I didn't want to leave just yet but it was no use. |
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| The images of my mother crying and holding on to me as we bid a tearful farewell to our home flashed through my mind. |
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| If she had not already met my mother at parent teacher conferences, I was not going to enlighten her. |
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| In fact, my mother and I also washed and ironed his clothes in case the Minister has forgotten that part of his story. |
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| No amount of hoping, no amount of wishing or praying, could bring my mother back to me. |
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| My husband laughs at me because I put our children's clothes on the radiator to warm in winter but it is a habit I picked up from my mother. |
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| It had no color, just a jewel my mother gave me but when I put the amulet around her neck she disappeared. |
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| When I was born in 1952, my mother was living in a flat above a launderette in Ellum Broadway. |
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| There are stories my mother has told me of the degradations that my grandparents and their ancestors had to go through. |
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| And, as I usually sat sewing with my sisters and my mother, I often had time for such idle daydreams. |
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| The gowns my mother had sewn for me are hardly suited for Christopher's home. |
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| This lore was passed on by my mother who had spent many of her childhood holidays on the same beaches, as had her mother before. |
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| Those scissors remind me of the creative inventive and resourceful things my mother did. |
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| There were always plenty of books in our house, because my mother was a passionate bibliophile. |
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| When I was a child I used to cause my mother major fits of angst while trying to keep me still in church. |
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| I had two teenage boys and I'd planned to visit my mother in Ohio, where she was in a rest home. |
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| But today, it was even more of a drag, for my mother insisted on all of us questioning Serena to death. |
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| Back before we got 8 digit phone numbers, and before we got a touch-tone phone, my mother was obsessed with winning radio competitions. |
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| When I got into my apartment, there was a message on the answering machine from my mother. |
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| Unlike my mother, my cousin's mother and family weren't ashamed of their indigenous antecedents. |
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| I was drawn to the lemon curd cake, as I'd once nagged my mother to make one, having read about it in a Famous Five book. |
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| I think one thing about it is just that day to day, in my dealings with people, my mother raised me right, so I try to be polite. |
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| I asked my father if I could put the previous post up, as he and my mother are slandered libellously. |
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| I sit beneath my mother while she reads the pattern's instructions, see her eyebrows contract through a crack in the table. |
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| Thanks to my mother, a lifelong Democrat from the swing state of Ohio, I have dual citizenship. |
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| And I told him that my mother and father, my two aunts, my two grandparents on both sides, they all died around the age of seventy. |
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| Somewhere in my early teens my mother became interested in herbs and medicinal properties in plants. |
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| My sisters can both sing, but my mother is tone-deaf and my father just can't sing. |
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| I do not like to knock the NHS because my mother worked long and hard as a nursing sister before retiring. |
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| But it wasn't until my mother baked Apple Pye that the king deigned to visit. |
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| I tuned Sparky out and started worrying about what my mother was gonna say when she found out all my stuff had been ripped off. |
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| My father used to swim in these fountains, to cool off from the heat and to make my mother laugh. |
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| Growing up, I remember my mother teaching my sisters how to cook traditional Albanian food. |
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| She had been there as my mother and I sat with him around the clock, sleeping by his bedside, anxiously checking his vitals. |
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| Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her. |
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| One year later and 10 blocks away, my mother came into the world, the granddaughter of those pioneers who had roamed the prairie. |
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| I was put on diets while I was a kid, but I never had conversations with my mother about body image. |
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| In fact, my mother brought a copy to the club and circulated it among the bunnies. |
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| I played Humphrey Bogart in a Casablanca sketch with my mother, and I played Flo Ziegfeld in a play. |
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| Peter Mansbridge, host of CBC's national news, generously remembers my mother, Barbara Frum. |
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| Using yarn and needle, my mother would then transfer that highly geometric pattern to cloth, creating a wall hanging, a pillow cover, or some other decorative article. |
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| In one of the moments I chatted briefly with him he made a quip about my work that my mother still quotes to this day. |
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| I innocently wrote a letter home to my mother telling her how great the French chef was in the headquarters canteen. |
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| We had a wireless, which was a swan like speaker, it operated on a small flat torch battery and an accumulator, we also had a piano which my mother played. |
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| When I was 5, my mother packed me off to a boarding school in Kuala Lumpur as there were no proper schools where we lived in Kuala Krai, Kelantan. |
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| When my mother took me home, she had to give me shots in my stomach of Lovenox and I was prescribed Coumadin. |
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| She got my cell phone number from my mother, who warned her I was impossible to get hold of because I never pick up the phone, but Debbie got me on the first try. |
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| When I left India and couldn't cook at all at 20 I started writing to my mother and she sent me back air letters, so I started with these air letters and began cooking. |
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| For all the reasons I've stated, my mother is a woman to reckon with but none of these are the reasons why I think my mother is a very special human being. |
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| Is this a defense mechanism, a way of not quite looking at what my mother has become? |
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| I vividly remember when my mother decided to redecorate our living room. |
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| My father was in the Air Raid Precautions unit and my mother in the Women's Royal Voluntary Service, my eldest sister in the WAAF and my middle sister in the Wrens. |
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| We stopped at the main desk of the dingy motel, one my mother would not have been happy with, and waited while Jimmy registered and checked us in. |
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| I also remember when I was a kid my mother came hopping on one foot into my room, claiming she'd lost sensation in her lower leg save for excruciating pain. |
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| Even though we had our own garden, my mother always bought from him, and as children we remembered to be on the front porch to wave to him on his return trip to Rutherglen. |
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| To this day, my mother can recite the Hebrew poetry of Bialik, which she learned in the dp camps of postwar Germany. |
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| Well, I grew up as a typical late-1970's latchkey kid, but my mother would have punished me severely if I left the house on my own and went to fast food restaurants by myself. |
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| I joke that I started as a kid revising the encyclopedia by stickering the one my mother bought. |
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| Most mornings I had a can of coke with whatever I happened to be eating but considering it was a weekend and my mother was not yet out of the house, I rethought that routine. |
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| He didn't ask why I was so antsy, or what I hadn't let my mother see him. |
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| Basically, my mother said with a touch of embarrassment, everyone else seemed to have a filter, so they bought one, too. |
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| Content, my mother was at ease that her first-born would not fall into the ranks of picky eaters. |
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| No one in my family approved of my writing, and especially not my mother. |
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| On the Saturday morning, my mother rang the site and the head of security told her I was rolling drunk and knocking people over, but there is no way I was. |
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| Once my mother asked me if I would mind spending the weekend helping my memaw around her house as her live-in nurse had to take off for the weekend for personal reasons. |
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| I wanted to hurt the man for making my mother cry, but she took me aside as the group moved what they were carrying over to the side of the house. |
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| You see, my mother used to sing me a lullaby before I went to sleep. |
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| Because he sensed this was an auspicious moment, my father came around to the front entrance of the house, and my mother, who was in the courtyard, heard him enter. |
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| My father was some years older than my mother, with salt-and-pepper hair. |
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| I was 14 when my English teacher set us the task of writing our autobiographies and, wishing to be as precise as possible, I asked my mother for my birth certificate. |
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| I tried to talk to my mother, she saw it only as my trying to move back to London to live with my grandparents and basically told me I was a snotty little madam. |
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| I was naturally tan also, mostly handed down from my mother. |
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| When my mother took me to the bank to open my first checking and savings accounts with my own money, I learned the value of a dollar and the importance of saving. |
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| I inherited this gift from my mother who was of Malawian origin. |
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| When my mother forgot to pierce the tin and had to do it hissing and spitting under the protection of a tea cloth, my dinner ended up on the kitchen ceiling. |
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| In a story, I suppose I would have slaved away at my school project and it would have been thrown away by my mother or ruined by one of the schoolkids. |
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| They were store-bought, the kind my mother would have scorned. |
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| I used to take the double-decker bus into town to shop for my mother, and Porrock used to go with me, scrambling up the steep stairs to the top deck. |
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| Still, my mother and I maintain hope that she can return someday, without the indignities of interrogation. |
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| We lived in a tiny trailer that my mother had bought back in 1969, a trailer without running water or indoor plumbing. |
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| My father was inordinately proud of this honour, though my mother was mildly embarrassed at it. |
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| As for that, my biological parents, my mother and father are dead. |
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| Like any person with more years lived than left, my mother is too wise to inveigh against the inevitabilities of time. |
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| Amelia Bird beckoned my mother to another room adjoining the one we were in presently to look at the costume as she gathered her measuring tape and a few more pins for Lacey. |
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| At the age of 6 or 7 I'd say I started the music, my mother had one of those little melodions and we finished up tearing that to pieces but we learnt to play the music on it. |
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| Money was so tight that even my mother was working part-time. |
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| It is quite possible that his only truly shameful act was his abandonment of his daughter and her mother, not to mention his mendacious behaviour toward my mother. |
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| They said I would not be separated from my mother and father. |
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| My very earliest memories are of picnics with my mother beneath the great trees in Richmond Park in London, of red deer stags belling in rut, of lightning and thunder. |
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| My father didn't earn enough, and my mother took care of the money and the family, and she had no time for lightness. |
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| They showed my mother, laughing on a terraced hill, land stitched with olive trees. |
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| One day, I walked off by mistake with a lollipop without paying, and my mother took me by the hand and made me bring it back. |
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| I saw my mother fall backwards and hit her head on the table. |
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| He had taken a liking to my mother, who looked more forward than she was, with her shingled hair and very short skirt showing a lot of silk stocking. |
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| Not long before my mother died, my sister found her wandering on a rainy day, shoeless and senile in the middle of millionaire ghetto Hampstead, where she lived. |
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| The trousseau had accompanied my mother on her sea journey from Scotland, a hopeless chest filled with the sort of frippery that quickly disintegrates in Africa. |
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| When my mother saw how spindly I was, she couldn't wait to turf me out. |
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| I first came to realise my mother hated me when I was only twelve. |
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| He physically violenced my mother, physically violenced me and my brothers, and was sexually abusive to me until I was in second grade. |
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| My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior. |
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| The homeroom teacher came into the office shortly after my mother arrived. |
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| I walked first for my grandmother, and my mother was sorry she had missed my first steps. My Baba was so proud, my mother later told me. |
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| It also tells the story of my mother, a mirror image of my motherland. |
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| We didn't portray my mother as a crazy sinophile, nor did we portray my father as a whitewashed yappie. |
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| My knowledge of my mother is very scanty, but very distinct. Her personal appearance and bearing are ineffaceably stamped upon my memory. |
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| When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her. |
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| I remember my mother standing exasperated in the rain with the brolly over her head at dusk while I frog-kicked around in my speedos. |
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| Other offal that my mother, father and grandmother used to love was chitterlings. |
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| But oh, God, those hours while I sweated it out until I saw my mother! |
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| A few hours later my mother phoned and asked me if Budgie Smugglers was the name of a Bond Girl. |
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| I was worried about having a VBAC because my mother nearly bled to death she gave live birth to me after having had a cesarean. |
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| Her roommate had had a stillborn baby and my mother felt sad for her. |
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| My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa major. |
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| The cbe, that was much more moving, because my mother was still alive. |
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| I visited my mother for a month, and she managed to fatten me up 20 pounds. |
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| However, my mother, who had been at the coalface of the marital collapse, felt the need to have an in-depth debrief. |
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| I am wearing a woollen bathing costume that my mother knitted which stretched in the water and ended up below my knees. |
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| The doctor wants to start my mother on a daily regimen of Lasix, a diuretic. |
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| Macy Gray is my grandmother, my mother, my cousins, and my aunt. |
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| Although my mother absolutely does love colin, I will say that. |
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| Those were the stories my mother told me, to keep me away from the water and its fringe of yew and turkey oak trees. |
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| I was born too late to experience a real Indonesian rijsttafel, but my mother used to tell me about these feasts. |
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| Starting in 1979, when I was seven, my mother regularly took me to the farm market in Butyrsky. |
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| The religious shrines that sprouted in front yards across St. Anthony's parish were too Portagee or greenhornish for my mother. |
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| The reader has seen, that my mother, notwithstanding her charitableness to the poor maid-servant, was a woman of strict morals. |
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| The living room had a tilty floor and a fireplace with a Dutch oven in which my mother tried, unsuccessfully, to bake bread. |
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| I'm on the pat and mick at the mo. Only went to town to see my mother off on the train, as she'd come down for the weekend to cheer me up. |
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| They think I've miracled the dogs, as the Eucharist miracled my mother. That I, Bonne, am pulsing with holy spirit. |
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| But Warren came with my mother the very next day, in his Bill Cosby sweater and pleated khaki pants, ready to meet his niece. |
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| Was I becoming a ones-and-zeros, bits-and-bytes version of my mother? |
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| I'm April Hooper. That sounds silly, the April part, but my mother was English and she always said there was nothing prettier than an English April. |
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| He persuaded my mother to publish a little volume of these versifyings. |
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| With the word 'baby' unmentionable and unhintable, we all had to go on pretending that my mother was in bed for some slight cold, or other indisposition. |
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| Its superscription was my name, and the name of the sender, my mother. |
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| The softness of my hands was secured by medicated gloves, and my bosom rubbed with a pomade prepared by my mother, of virtue to discuss pimples, and clear discolourations. |
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| Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. |
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| In her efforts to transform me into the debutante I would never become, my mother spent her scrimpings on private piano, violin, and voice lessons. |
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| For most of my life, I've watched my mother resist the urge to color outside the lines. Not because she didn't want to do it, but because some part of her wasn't free enough. |
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| In June 1940 at night-time the air-raid siren went, my father was at the docs so my mother told my elder brother to go down the steps ready for me to be handed to him. |
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| Some are more social and verbal than my mother but the not sleeping at night, the sundowning, the 36-hour day, these they hold in terrible common. |
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| More recently, I've been busy as a frog-spawn swapper as my ponds have been full of the jelly-like substance but my mother hasn't had any in hers. |
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| Like Mr. Paresi, a pimpy Brooklyn lawyer who my mother claims is the number-one criminal defense attorney in New York, complete with an impressive roster of Mafia clients. |
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| In America every December my mother had decorated our home with metal Stars of David she hung on strings in the doorways and lit the menorah as we gathered at the table. |
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| So I left Teach for America, moved home to be with my mother and prepare for my surgery, and transformed myself into a macrobiotically inclined housekeeper. |
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| When I had learned that I was intersex, I brought this issue to my mother. |
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| I never knew why they singled me out, though at the time I believed it was because my mother made me wear green gym knickers and everyone else's were navy or white. |
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| I can practically hear my mother gasping now as I reach for my Black Bean and Avocado Tostada or dig into a Red Bean and Millet Enchilada before noon. |
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| He wasn't just getting wise, he was getting wise to my mother. |
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| But my adopted role as birdwoman of the Holme Valley is fiercely contested by my mother who feeds her birds almost religiously and with all manner of goodies. |
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| When my mother was 21 she moved into a house and because Romanies no longer live in caravans, they are no longer mixing with other people of their community. |
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| When I found out my mother had passed away that night, I fell to pieces. |
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| I'm a fair judge, well used to the good grub and knacky manipulation of sauce and meat by my mother, who cooked at one time for Maud Gonne MacBride. |
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