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Five months before Sam was born, Lori went to the state bureau of child care in St. Louis and studied its records for several local day-care centers. She chose one just a few moments from her job, so she could slip over and nurse her baby at lunchtime. It cost $152 a week. Doris would go to the center in the afternoons and stay for hours. And very soon she had seen enough. "The room was too small and was crammed with cribs," she recalls. "The workers sneezed into their hands and then wouldn't wash them...
Before long, Doris had made up her mind. She would watch Sam during the day, while Lori worked, along with her daughter Barbara's children two days a week. "I knew it would make me tired," Doris says. "But what's more important than my grandson?" She won't take any money from her daughters, although she buys most of the grandchildren's clothes and has turned her tidy home into a day-care center...
Doris worries about everyone. She worries about her mother, 93 and suffering from Alzheimer's in a nursing home, whom she now has less time to visit; she worries about the stress in her children's lives. "I worry that Lori works so much. But I know she can't help it." What does Ed worry about? "I worry about Doris...
...Welcome to our midday family meal," Lori says, as she sits in her office at Rudivani Precision Motorworks, the car-repair shop she manages in Webster Groves. The two mechanics are eating take-out sandwiches; Lori is eating a hamburger and returning phone calls in her little office. Propped up in the corner is a framed poster called 21 Suggestions for Success. The top four: "Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. Work at something you enjoy, and that's worthy of your time and talent. Give people more than they expect...
...Lori comes to work in clean white Reeboks, then changes into the greasy pair she keeps under her desk. She arrives early and stays late, managing the shop, working the phones, soothing the customers, ordering parts, keeping the books, making haircut appointments for the mechanics, test-driving all the cars. "She makes things happen," says Cavataio. "She's allowed the business to grow." Grow so fast, in fact, that they have been fighting the city to let them keep more cars on their cluttered lot than the city fathers would like. "I guess we didn't understand the politics...