"It was similar to having a mother figure but she was also our strength and conditioning coach, " Gordon said.
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Masika has become a mother figure to the women and their children -- the results of rape -- and as they plant, tend, harvest and finally sell their crops they begin to heal together.
Overseeing it all is a ghostly mother figure in a silver, Pioret-style dress and turban.
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She's been governor for less than two years, and up until last Friday's announcement, the mother of five was a little-known figure on the national scene.
The defence say Miss Pearson and her mother suffered from a syndrome called folie a deux which meant the older woman was the dominant figure in the relationship and Miss Pearson therefore had a reduced capacity to appreciate the risk to her mother's health or the conditions they lived in.
In a letter sent nine days after the battle George Neville, the then chancellor of England, wrote that 28, 000 men died that day, a figure in accord with a letter sent by Edward to his mother.
"I couldn't really figure out what happened, " said Melissa Kim, a Bronx mother of an 18-month-old, Lauren.
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The single mother, scraped along financially before the success of the Potter books, and has since donated a six-figure sum to a charity for single mothers.
One figure in particular rode on these trains: a man called Joe Singer, who had dated his mother before she was married, and who might have been his father if life had been different.
Most chapters hinge on an idea or character, beginning with Mr. Hitchens's mother, an emotionally volatile figure who hid her Jewish identity from her family, and his father, a commander in Britain's Royal Navy.
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