And I can drink one beer and my mother would call me drunk.

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As my mother and Enoch Powell used to call me.

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To the day she died, my beloved mother refused to buy peanut butter, or groundnut paste as we prefer to call it, to use in preparing the delicious groundnut soup that is such a regular on Ghanaian menus.

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When my mother first became a grandmother at age 46, she quickly announced that no one was allowed to call her granny.

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