Word: motherism
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...their workaday protagonists. Take the hapless citizens of Walford, a fictional London borough that is the setting for EastEnders, one of Britain's top-rated soaps. Recent episodes have seen a troubled adolescent kidnap his estranged stepfather, chip-shop owner Ian Beale, to exact revenge for his psychopathic mother's death in prison. Ian's current wife Jane was shot during her attempt to free him (keep up now: the gun originally belonged to a pedophile who targeted Ian's 13-year-old daughter). Jane's doctors say she'll survive her injuries, but such infusions of melodrama...
...learned I had calcification deposits in my breast that turned out to be cancerous, as they sometimes can be. I was stunned, and so was my family. Since immigrating to the U.S. as a teenager, I have enjoyed more opportunity and freedom of choice than either my mother or grandmother. But I now see that I am paying the price for multitasking and the pursuit of the American Dream, with the accompanying stress and ceaseless consumerism. Focusing on the treatments of breast cancer is necessary, but I feel more emphasis should be given to prevention, which received little attention...
...Overlaying a female torso with a world map made for a most intriguing cover image. My teenage son and adult husband were particularly taken with the latitudes around Nepal. Pun intended? An eye-opening story, in more ways than one. As a wife and mother, I appreciate the coverage. Melissa Noebes, Canton...
...consenting instead to wed a Toronto-based astrologer she knew through her maternal uncle. "I agreed to marry a man I had never met, thinking he would take me to a better life in Canada," she says. "Once settled there, I would take my two younger sisters and our mother, too." After a six-week visit for the wedding, her husband returned to Toronto promising to complete the legal formalities for her to join him. But her tickets never came. After six years of waiting, Sharma received documents informing her that she had been divorced...
...mother, who is 93. I got her dressed and downstairs. We ran to the garage. I got two suitcases. My wife and I filled them with clothes, pictures, personal possessions. I filled a third case with insurance papers and meds. I looked out the window and didn't see any flames. I put my mother in the car. Then I got two more suitcases...