Word: moms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mom sent me off to Harvard with two requests. One: take a course with Everett I. Mendelsohn, her favorite professor from graduate school days. Two: go see the Glass Flowers at the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...used to bake cupcakes for Yaz's birthday. I sped down the left lane of Rte. 128 a few summers ago to catch up with a car driven by Bruce Hurst. My brother and I approached Bob Stanley in Polcari's restaurant and told him that our Mom used to take piano lessons in his hometown...
...singing from the moment she came out," on Aug. 9, 1963, in Newark. After the Newark riots of 1967, the Houstons moved to a two- story house in East Orange, where Cissy still lived until this March. For the most part they were an ordinary family, except that Mom would occasionally hit the road to sing backups for Elvis, Aretha or Dionne. While Cissy toured with her group, the Sweet Inspirations, John, the group's manager, tended the three children. Whitney's half-brother Gary Garland, 28, sings duets and backup in her act; her brother Michael...
...used to give her flowers," says John, 66, who runs Whitney's three companies. "I helped her with term papers in high school -- she'd call me on Tuesday for a paper due on Wednesday. She's always been great with that 'Daddy' bit." Says Whitney: "He was Mom's support network while she was on tour. He changed diapers, cooked, did my hair and dressed me, all the while providing Mom with advice and answers...
...Houston, now 53. Whitney calls her "my teacher, my friend, the lady in my life." John credits Cissy with teaching their daughter "how to talk, walk, stand, project, greet people. She took care of Whitney's teeth, got involved with how she dressed." Cissy was a strict and loving mom. If she thought Whitney needed a spanking, Whitney got one. "Cracking gum or sitting with your legs open were considered unacceptable," Whitney says, "and I'd better not come back from the yard with scratched knees." Cissy says Whitney "didn't date young. I didn't allow it. Period...