Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life came when my parents heard about a bunch of 15-year-olds who had talked their older friends with licenses into letting them drive around the local shopping-center parking lot after hours, creating havoc. "Just tell me if you've ever been down there," my mother urged. "It will be worse if I find out from the security guards or other parents." So I fessed up to that heady, behind-the-wheel spin from rows A to N. It's possible things would have been worse if an independent counsel had forced the truth...
...have taken care of her since the accident. "But it don't mean I don't love her," she added, saying she wants to be part of the girl's life. And the Rogers and Chittum families too seemed to think love trumps DNA. Both Linda Rogers--Whitney's mother--and the Chittum family lawyer told TIME that the girls shouldn't be switched again...
Paula Johnson grew up the daughter of divorced parents in Manassas, Va., outside Washington, and moved to Ruckersville five years ago. Now 30, she is the divorced mother of three boys in addition to the switched daughter. She also has custody of an unrelated 16-year-old girl. "My mom says other kids brought home stray dogs and cats," she says. "I brought home stray people." Johnson raises her family on the $9.07 an hour she earns as a flagger at construction sites. "TV dinners and hamburger casseroles" help make ends meet...
...white flag fluttered in my mind. Just in time, too. I ran up the driveway to greet my mother. This situation was a disaster. There was to be no future for Manly Man and me. Ah, well. Maybe Harvard men aren't so dull after...
...plain darkness, but the exchange is an important one. Jessica Shapiro '00, playing a "mutant" little Siberian girl named Vodya who cannot speak due to radiation poisoning, gives a haunting performance without saying a word--one that resonates in your head for days. Erin Billings '99, as Vodya's mother, laces her character with such hostile helplessness that one wants to both hug her and run far away from her. Her poisonous glares at Rodent and her razor-sharp words chill the entire audience to the bone; yet one cannot help but wonder if, should one be in her situation...