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1  My mother gets very hysterical.
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2  My mother always knows it's me.
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3  Her mother and father were divorced.
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4  I caddy'd for her mother a couple of times.
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5  The thing is, though, I liked old Morrow's mother.
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6  "Her mother belonged to the same club we did," I said.
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7  Sometimes my mother braids it and sometimes she doesn't.
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8  Her mother was married again to some booze hound, I said.
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9  You take somebody's mother, all they want to hear about is what a hot-shot their son is.
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10  , where she went, instead of calling up her mother to find out when she was coming home.
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11  She looked like she might have a pretty damn good idea what a bastard she was the mother of.
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12  I had to pack these brand-new ice skates my mother had practically just sent me a couple of days before.
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13  Then I thought of giving Jane Gallagher's mother a buzz, and find out when Jane's vacation started, but I didn't feel like it.
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14  His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class.
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15  Her mother knew my mother, and I could picture her breaking a goddam leg to get to the phone and tell my mother I was in New York.
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16  Then he said, "I had the privilege of meeting your mother and dad when they had their little chat with Dr. Thurmer some weeks ago."
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17  I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody's father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Hans would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents.
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