| I leave Mom who flips through a Family Circle magazine, she looks older then usual. |
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| Each time your brother scratches at the uncomfortable acrylic sweater Mom gave him, offer him some lotion. |
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| Mom will get carried away too, caught up in the strong opinions and harsh views. |
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| But the capper was that both my Mom and my Grandad had told me to my face not to throw rocks on the roof. |
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| Mom is actually about to get a new job and a lot more money, and I am excited because shopping trips! |
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| I remembered Mom sitting beside me as we watched Jenna toddle around the room, going up to various people on the benches. |
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| Mom had a very active social life, despite her age, and she played tennis twice a week, plus being a member of about four different committees. |
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| Mom loses her rag and threatens to get rid of him approximately twice a day, but he's still here. |
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| Mom backed the car out of the driveway, kicking up dust on the berm of Old Logan Road as she drove us home. |
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| Mom led us down the stairs and into the throng of guests that were milling about the giant room. |
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| Mom doesn't say anything, she just waits like she expects me to continue, so I do. |
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| They are the Mom and Dad and kids walking to work or school while looking for a gun barrel pointed at them from a white van. |
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| Mom kept ordering assistants back to the storage sheds until we had enough bulbs and tubers to fill two shopping baskets. |
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| I really shouldn't have been surprised when I ended up at the ice cream parlor with Mom and my three scoops of rainbow sherbet in a sugar cone. |
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| Mom had often complained that nobody was calling in at Grandma's house much and would ask me to make an extra visit. |
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| Mom took her appetizer recommendation, a warm lobster salad in a martini glass with layers of truffled potatoes and slow-cooked broccoli. |
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| Mom sipped a cup of black coffee and toyed with the sugar packets on the table. |
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| Many Sunday mornings were spent with Mom making devotional house visitations for the shut-ins. |
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| Mom nodded, and the two of us bolted from there, away from the kitchen, but not before grabbing some Oreos out of the cookie jar. |
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| Dad stopped on the highway, I got out, and he sped away with Mom and my five younger brothers and sisters staring out the rear window. |
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| Many readers probably heard this speech from Mom or Dad before they took off for a singles condo with its own yoga room and EST support group. |
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| Not long after that, we found out that Mom and Dad had left us all a lot of money in their wills. |
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| Mom always used to do all the planting a week before her birthday so she could see the flowers blooming on her special day. |
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| If they aren't competing with each other to be Top Mom, they're killing him with kindness. |
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| A delicious mud pie, a good-luck rock, or a friendly frog are just a few of the presents children love to bring home to Mom and Dad. |
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| The toast may be burned, the eggs a bit underdone and the bacon black as coal, but Mom doesn't care. |
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| The next time somebody tries to push your buttons, remember what Mom said and resist reacting. |
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| Mom tells her that she'll have to keep her arm bandaged and in a sling for at least two weeks. |
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| More business owners are hiring virtual assistants to handle tasks from bookkeeping to buying gifts for Mom. |
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| Mom rented a conversion van and the six of us went to every garage sale in a hundred mile radius. |
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| Natasha and Valya are Buryat, they are cousins and run the hostel where I stayed when I got here first, the other one is Mom! |
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| Mom was an anti-nuke activist, a union organizer, a feminist and a single mother. |
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| No doubt they thought there would be benefits from contemplating the images of Mom, Her Son, and his tragic story. |
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| He still had his Mom, Suzan, but he didn't connect with her like he connected with his Dad. |
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| I slammed the door behind me, immediately regretting it, for I could hear Brendan's heavy footsteps as he ran off to tell Mom. |
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| Apparently all the cars behind Mom and Dad were pulling out and passing our little caravan, thereby boxing Buddy in. |
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| The first few nights Mom slipped me half a Vicodin and a nip of Benedictine brandy. |
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| She locks Mom, kids and family dog in a large steamer trunk and then prepares to seduce nebbishy Bob. |
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| He wanted veal-flavored frozen yogurt dipped in lard, but they were out because Tom's Mom had just been there. |
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| The story behind the breakfastless children, the experts reported, is that Mom is a slugabed who refuses to get up in time to scramble the eggs. |
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| Mom was busily cooking, but of course, Muriel couldn't bring herself to soil her hands. |
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| Jack, who was hiding outside, and I began to laugh so hard that Mom stared at us open-mouthed. |
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| Mom may need to continue taking 1-2 capsules per day if stopping the lecithin leads to additional plugged ducts. |
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| The doorbell rang out through the house just as Mom was pulling her chicken casserole from the oven. |
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| Mom spent the years 1967 to 1988 providing some level of care to Dad while he was institutionalized. |
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| Mom also was an inveterate arguer and would defend her point of view to the end. |
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| We were at a loose end for something to do, and Mom suggested the cinema, so, I agreed. |
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| He started to approach my Mom as if he was going to take her aside and engage her in a private conversation, but he didn't get the chance. |
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| My Dad wanted me to read The Divine Comedy but my Mom gave him a philippic for even suggesting it. |
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| As Mom faced her illness, she did so in a spirit of fortitude based on an implicit faith and a godly life. |
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| I told him that it would cost a bomb and that my Mom and Dad would never allow it. |
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| To keep Mom happy and to be sure your body's nutritional needs are being met, make a special effort to eat healthful meals. |
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| Mom and Dad get all nostalgic about Amin Sayani and Radio Ceylon, and how those were the days etc. |
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| Mom had taken me to the county fair with Lily, and I had won the painting by popping a balloon with a dart. |
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| Plus, Mom was blasting music in the next room while she was putting her face on. |
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| Mom is now saddled with the additional burdens of becoming the primary breadwinner and household repairman. |
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| Mom usually chooses the farm based on which has the best trees and plenty of extras, like tire swings or hayrides. |
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| Mom was at my sister's house and had to be taken home to prepare a room for Marie. |
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| The Christmas tree fell over, and I had never seen Mom happier as she and Dad guffawed at their clumsiness. |
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| Although Mom had never bothered with books, our physical similarities, apart from my tallness, were undeniable. |
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| Alana left in a hurry, leaving Angela wondering if her Mom had any sane friends left in Fallon Creek. |
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| For a moment, I thought that Mom had decided to bring in a hot pad because of oncoming winter. |
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| Get Mom to use an ice pick or other sharp object to puncture the fabric at the screw holes, and re-attach lid to chest. |
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| Mom was placed against the wood panelling of the walls and there was considerable space between her and Dan. |
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| Mom sipped her tea and set it down on the china saucer that was placed on the glass coffee-table. |
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| Mom and I would then go to those markets and buy very carefully, very choosily. |
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| The dining room where Mom served up chicken Kiev alongside a glass of milk at 6 o'clock sharp is but a retro dream. |
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| She can't stay with my Mom because my Mom has this behemoth of a cat that doesn't cotton to other felines in the vicinity. |
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| I didn't much feel like having a miserable evening of Dad being uncomfortable while Mom and me sent angry glares at each other. |
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| The woman wearing said fake fur turned around quickly, shot Mom a deadly look, and then haughtily turned back around and ignored her. |
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| We didn't even go downstairs for lunch, though Mom brought up grilled cheese sandwiches and milk for us. |
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| I don't need to know why Mom calls him that, suffice to say she has her reasons. |
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| Mom and Dad hurried to the hallway, leaving my brother and me to engage in covert anarchy, spoons engaged as shiny ballistae. |
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| After scrawling a quick note to Mom about where I was going, I left the house towards Advenger Hill. |
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| Tom would be teasing Katie, and Dad chain-smoking and making jokes, while Mom piled the table with enough food to feed the Zuckermans twice over. |
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| I could hear Mom banging around downstairs, probably making something else. |
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| But I started to resent my Mom, expecting her to go away and expecting to be wakened with the sound of breaking glass. |
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| And I definitely didn't want my Mom asking him anymore questions, so there was only one thing for it. |
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| Then suddenly, in a slightly hoarse and off-key voice, he sang the lullaby that Mom used to sing to me. |
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| Mom comes downstairs minutes later with a short, short miniskirt and a see-through shirt. |
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| In their 25th year of marriage, Mom started singing with a country gospel music quartet led by a guy named Gordon. |
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| It's really sweet actually but Mom wanted to throw it out because it brought back too many memories of her. |
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| Mom cooked, made our clothes, housecleaned, and taught us to behave. |
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| But I just had a few bites of risotto before I told Mom that I was full. |
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| I help Grandad wash and wax the truck, and he puts on his best suit while Mom and Grandma figure out the exact wording of the message he's to take to Ben Dawson. |
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| Mom or dad held you on his or her lap while the doctor, wearing a white coat and Cheshire cat grin, pierced your poreless, silken skin with a needle full of weird stuff. |
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| The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, dad is out of work. |
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| I have to believe Mom had her suspicions, even though I explained it away by saying I'd backed into the stuff while changing into my bathing suit. |
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| With sangfroid, Mom snuffed out her cigarette with the toe of her high heel. |
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| But all this fictitious boning has real consequences, of the Teen Mom variety. |
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| I remember my Mom selling them at a rummage sale when I was in college. |
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| The nurse will be happy to watch the babies while Mom and Dad head for the lounge car or the dome car or the diner, to take in the scenery and watch a movie. |
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| When Dad had a sabbatical year in 1962, he and Mom took the four of us children to live in Europe, and we spent a summer in Bavaria, in the foothills of the Alps. |
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| Mom shoved a sack lunch into my hands and kissed me on the temple. |
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| I meant no harm by it, but I remembered how this person talked, and I did it for my Mom and she was not into it. |
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| When I first came here, my Mom pictured me living in a tarpaper shack. |
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| Pursuit of happiness at our house involved a highball for Dad and an Old Fashioned for Mom. |
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| Mom was the first to get up from her seat and made toward the door. |
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| My father had no hobbies and spent what little free time he had helping my Mom take care of us. |
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| Dad bought Mom a snappy convertible back about the time of the Nixon-Kennedy debates. |
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| Mom looks at me, her eyes are tearing up, yet her face is cold. |
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| There are Mom and Pop shops for fish markets, bakeries with baklava and cannolis, produce stands and specialty Greek markets filled with olives, feta cheese and pita bread. |
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| I growled under my breath as I listened to my Mom bad-mouthing me. |
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| Dad asked Mom if any films had been screened yet on television. |
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| Dad barbecued some steaks, and Mom made potato salad and corn on the cob. |
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| Mom turned to the cabinets and began looking for the measuring cup. |
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| As Mom drove and rattled on endlessly about how wonderful her high school years were, I studied my class schedule which I hastily scotch-taped to the cover of my binder. |
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| I can't pinpoint the exact moment, but it was most likely around the time my Mom caught me practicing kissing on her favorite throw pillow from Ethan Allen. |
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| If I complain of a sore bellyache Mom will never believe me. |
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| On moving in with me, Mom went into a depression and refused to leave the house or find a job or do anything but sit and smoke in the living room, and drink coffee. |
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| Mom fixed minute steaks and corn on the cob and sliced tomatoes and the wind howled like a ghost story and the house shook like a giant was slapping it back and forth. |
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| A few years ago my Mom was very sick, I was going into menopause and was stressed out, tired, puffy and sad. |
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| Mom was lying in her bed, arm in a cast, and bandage on her forehead. |
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| At the airport, Mom and Dad stood by as we checked in our bags. |
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| Mom put her index finger to her mouth, motioning me to stay quiet. |
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| Anna was sixteen, the coolest age for a teen and she should have been having a blowout party with her friends, not sitting at home with her Mom and her Mom's friend. |
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| She spoke of organizing a Million Mom march for all mothers who have lost a child. |
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| Mom lectured as she snatched Jason's drink and began slurping it up. |
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| Smartly, the creators have not turned Mom into a one-joke character. |
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| But I wonder what happens when Mr. Wolfe and Anonymous Mom are high and a Lego piece goes missing? |
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| I could only pick up snatches of their conversation, and the only thing I could hear clearly was Mom asking them if they'd like anything to eat or drink. |
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| Mom would sneak me into all sorts of contests for kids like me. |
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| Mom will probably look a little guilty and may admit she snooped. |
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| Her Mom had bred her for Justine when she was two years old. |
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| Mom would have bumps and bruises all over her body the next day. |
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| I mean, I've gotten spankings and stuff, but Mom rarely smacks anymore. |
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| The Internet has transformed holiday shopping, allowing you to order an out-of-print book for Mom or a Hawaiian nose flute for Dad without ever leaving your driveway. |
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| Mom says she likes the idea of having a candlelit dinner with her family. |
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| Mom stepped in, juggling her bag and the carry-out box from Olive Garden. |
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| She could see in the pale moonlight that Mom was startled by her question. |
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| Mom moved up the cot and squeezed next to Mira and held her close. |
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| Maybe in a strange twist of fate, Mom and Dad would be in bed sleeping. |
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| Now, I was always the picky eater and my Mom never had the patience to get me to eat. Gran would make me the things I liked and then feed them to me. |
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| Books, television, even dear old infallible Mom have steered you wrong. |
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| Mom was making pizza almost from scratch and the smell filled the air. |
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| Dad was reading the newspaper by firelight and Mom was telling us a story. |
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| Mom is playing it cool, but her eyes betray her real emotions. |
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| Hey, maybe we can play a joke on Mom with something from the gift shop. |
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| The machines clone undeserving Mom from a lock of her hair preserved by Teddy, and David gets to spend one perfect day basking in the radiance of maternal plenitude. |
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| I went first to see Mom and Dad in Yorkshire, then to Court Green. |
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| Mom Jeans fit Mom just the way she likes it. She'll love the nine inch zipper and casual front pleats. |
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| The most compelling entry will be selected by DIY Design Mom on December 31, 2014 and officially announced on the website New Year's Day. |
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| When serving it to Mom, we'd advise gussying up slices with fresh raspberries and freshly whipped cream. |
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| Mom is presumably a druggie but, like Dad, is a cardboard character who evokes wildly inconsistent feelings in her daughter. |
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| Mom usually chooses the farm based on which has the best trees plus plenty of extras, like tire swings or hayrides. |
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| But as it turns out, Mom may have been understating this one. |
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| Get a piece of posterboard and cover it with photos of Mom, your faro and her friends and shots of her favorite things and places. |
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| Mom also makes butter pound cake, chocolate pound cake, marble pound cake, apple dapple cakes, cookies, and whoopee pies. |
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| Joyce, Mom, Gramma, and Nana, she will be greatly missed and carried close to many hearts. |
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| Timothy and Natalie ran back to their Mom asking her and Aden to come and play chasey with them. |
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| Dad's astrobabble theory is annoying, but at least it does the trick. Mom lets it drop for now. |
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| Horberg oversaw Dad's and Mom's conveying their home from joint tenancy to Mom, TOD to their children, per stirpes. |
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| Mom organizes a search, but the only things we find are a broken squirt gun and an old penny. |
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| But, he said while he was there he would like to show Mom a great new carpet sweeper that he was selling. |
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| At the stage when you are a helpless baby, Mom is, literally, everything. |
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| But more than just a how-to, we wrote the Geek Mom book to encourage mothers and geeklings to be proud of their true selves. |
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| Otherwise, according to Mom, intelligence could handicap a woman. |
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| Kids don't seem to notice that Mom is also one tough and capable babe, or that Dad is in touch with his vulnerable inner child. |
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| While estate agent Mom is off at work, youngsters Conrad and Sally Walden are left with a babysitter with instructions not to mess up the house. |
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| Mom drew deeply on her cigarette, fingers shaking on the exhale. |
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| Hello, Susan Patton aka the endearingly self-named Princeton Mom. |
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| In some cases, researchers suggest, these cellular mementos of Mom trigger autoimmune diseases in the child. |
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| Mom was trying to talk her son into coming over, to her home in Burleson. |
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| We drew our water from a well in the back yard with a bucket and Mom washed oh a rubboard and used a washpot. |
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| Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a seriocomic romp through the summer of a group of teenagers. |
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| Nothing is a greater turn-on for Mom than seeing her funsome leading man enjoying her offspring. |
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| When both kids want to ride shotgun with Mom, they'll just have to take turns. |
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| Mom gasped in surprise at the sight of my sister's new haircut. |
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| Besides that, Mir was certifiably loaded... she didn't need my Mom to buy her squat... but apparently Mom had insisted. |
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| Mom always worried about our safety in my friend's rattletrap. I told her not to worry, as it can't go fast enough to be dangerous. |
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| Then the next thing I knew, my Mom whipped around and gave Kellie one of those backhanded pimp-slaps across the face. |
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| And while many of us might be a little taken aback if Mom showed up at our offices, Secrist is utterly nonplussed, even happy about it. |
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| Mom made her favorite oatmeal no-bakes and Rice Krispies treats. The good thing about being sick was she could eat anything she wanted. |
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| But Mom insists that we all wear blue jeans and white sweatshirts. |
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| Mom asks if you'll wait a minute, please, sir, while she reds up a little. |
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| Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah, Mom, you said this all yesterday. |
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| The Mom and Pop shops are facing the same plight as the Mama stores. |
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| We have so much scratch paper in our house now, with Mom back in school. |
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| Our favorite ones were flied whole, with just some salt sprinkled on them, and some, like the big parasol mushroom, Mom would bread like chicken and fry in a skillet. |
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| The site launched by Mom Trusted, an online community helping parents find childcare centers and local preschools, is gaining momentum in recent months. |
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| In other words, once SAHDs had become an accepted part of public reality, Mr. Mom as well as the short-lived TV series Daddio were bound to follow. |
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| Then, after I send Mom home, I want to get on one of those hydroplane boats like they used to have on Gentle Ben and share gumbo with a bayou family. |
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| As we graduated from Brownies to Girl Scouts, Mom was again my leader. |
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