Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city, things to do on campus and people whom I wanted her to meet. While my folks had dropped me off at school the past two Septembers, they had not been able to visit during the school year to witness my life away from home, so my mother's visit was especially precious...
...impending and then unfinished tutorial paper began to weigh upon me, like my personal rain cloud amidst the gorgeous sunny weather we were enjoying. I started fretting about my mother's visit, mentally evaluating its duration against my calculations for the time required for the paper. And so it was with some trepidation that I greeted my mom when she rolled into the Quad driveway in "the Bathtub," as my friends have affectionately dubbed our large white station wagon...
...that afternoon, I was again tallying the remaining hours until the paper was due. I kept reminding myself to focus on my mother and enjoy the limited time of her visit, yet a sort of academic claustrophobia began to set in, transforming her stay into a launchpad countdown to the marathon paper-writing session that I knew would follow her departure...
Thursday night we rode the T downtown, simultaneously suspending our conversation as we emerged over the dark and glassy Charles and clicked across the Longfellow Bridge. As a belated Mother's Day gift we were going to see what turned out to be a quite racy production of the musical "Cabaret." It was perhaps not the ideal show to which to take one's mother, but I smiled in thinking how my sense of the boundary of indecency so strongly reflects my mom's influence...
...Radcliffe medal will be one of many accomplishments in Cole's long list of honors. She has already received 41 honorary degrees and been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Yale University. The author of two books and mother of five children, Cole's "abridged" curriculum vitae runs to three full pages...