To my young eyes, she seemed like a sweet woman, and did a lot to spruce up the highways.

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Unfortunately or fortunately, Nawab had married early in life a sweet woman of unsurpassed fertility, whom he adored, and she proceeded to bear him children spaced, if not less than nine months apart, then not that much more.

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"The sweet potato is a woman's crop, a security crop, " Wambugu says.

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All were watching as a heavyset forty-six-year-old woman, with cornflower-blue eyes, a sweet smile, and auburn hair parted neatly in the middle, struggled to keep pace on a treadmill.

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