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...Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven. The extra ingredient is care. Just like Mom used to make...
...entirely inchoate, ambitions. They have invested John with a real problem -- alcoholism -- and they have plunked the Learys down on a block that is a sort of dumping ground for the damned of the lower middle class. Among their new neighbors are a neo-Nazi, a drug-addict mom who dies of an overdose and someone who keeps a pack of killer Dobermans in the yard next door. For a family teetering on the brink of dysfunction, this environment seems bound to push them over the edge. Sure enough, Dylan, the younger son, is kidnapped and rendered speechless...
While reading her letter, I was struck by its bitter theme and almost surprised when she did not carry her argument to its logical zenith--"But MOM, I wanted to be on the Committee!" Her fourth paragraph was particularly telling when she wrote, "I applied to be on the reevaluation committee. I was not accepted." At that point, she could have chosen to proclaim her own virtues and attempted to explain why she was a strong applicant; instead, she childishly degenerated into implying that somehow ALL of the committee members are underqualified, "entrenched" pals of Mike Beys...
...Small mom and pop operations are feeling the squeeze for only one reason--high rents. Landowners know that if Bartley's can't pay its bills, Uno's will. And the biggest scrooge of them all is none other than Harvard, which owns most of the land in the Square...
...racked with chills and fever who said she had been vomiting all day: "She was crying all the time we talked to her." He called a nurse to the phone and notified the hospital's child-protection unit. Social workers suggested calling 911, but the girl balked, protesting that Mom would be "upset." Attempts to reach the mother, who worked as a visiting nurse, failed. So Nelson and others remained on the phone for more than an hour until the mother, who insisted that Phone- Friend staff members were "overreacting," returned...