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"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."

"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee."

"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother."
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"Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself."

"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."
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