Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BAMBI. This 1942 Disney fable has everything a child could fear or want: a forest fire, a mother's death, cute comedy and a deer heart to cherish. Bonus: Bambi's bunny pal Thumper makes Roger Rabbit look like a wimp...
...efforts to please me used to kill me," says his mother. "I always wished he would do something to make me angry. He never would, even when he was in pain...
...ready." The father remembers, "Reza was calm, but dead serious. Like his mother, he's all heart." Reza says, "I was afraid. But they offered me something I had prayed for all my life...
...ward the mother yielded to an eleventh-hour anxiety attack. "Am I doing the right thing?" she asked. The father had one answer: "He wants to become a functional human being. We shouldn't deny him the chance to fight for that." Reza gave her the definitive response in the early-morning hours of April 5, during countdown to surgery. "When this is over," he told his mother, "I'm not going to be nice to those who don't deserve it." He ticked off recollections of deep, silently tolerated anguish inflicted by pitying glances, patronizing caresses, crass jokes...
...much. Then, in fourth grade, boys started to find me attractive, so I put away my boxing gloves." At school Michelle acted up; at home she acted out. "I'd sing into the garden hose and pretend I was Elvis," she recalls. "Whenever I'd try to con my mother, she'd say, 'What a drama queen...