Word: mother
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...simulacrum of normality, the prince's assessment was just about right. The Windsors don't do normal. Their function is symbolic; the most popular and effective member of the family, the Queen, is remote, dare one say regal, despite her relentless diary of public engagements. It was Harry's mother Diana, a royal-by-marriage, who engaged with ordinary people in emotionally intelligent ways and encouraged her sons to strive for a kind of über-normality. Yet as she discovered, it's hard to keep it real in the parallel universe that her former in-laws inhabit. Their palaces...
...earth to defend someone. And a parent talking about their child, there’s no objectivity, to say, ‘Well, yeah, they probably had a point in dumping you.’ They’re just like ‘I’m your mother and I don’t have to be fair.’ So I thought it’d be funny if she wrote from the most biased point of view imaginable about how awesome...
...communist regime would grant him a visa. At age 14, Balmori’s father was able to escape to Spain and spent several months in an orphanage before meeting his uncle in the United States in 1967. While Velo’ father was able to leave Cuba, his mother was not. His father had to work with seven different governments in order to get his wife into Panama and then into the United States in 1984. Today, each family resides in southern Florida.While the recent political events in Cuba may look promising to some, Balmori, Lage, and Velo-Arias...
...hasn’t lived in an environment like this since her college years. “It will be challenging living with so many people,” Ross said. “It will have its advantages too, in that you’re not their mother and you’re a step removed.” Ross added that their 19-year-old son worries that his parents won’t be able to handle the occasional debauchery that comes with undergraduate life. “I have three sons,” she said...
...mother, after observing me waste away hours every day watching cycles—“Top Model” has cycles, not seasons (and with a dozen girls trapped in a house together for months, the menstruation jokes write themselves)—asked me how I could possibly find entertainment in reality TV I’d already seen...