The butcher had been a good man, friendly to her mother, always offering a kind word and picking out the best cuts for her, but his wife had been mean and silent as she took the money, and sometimes she had kept it a little longer in her hand, staring at it, as if she thought it might be some kind of foreign currency.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer

Mother, trying to be friendly, asked Dad about his job a few days later.

NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

Like his mother, she is also friendly and social, with an easy manner of organizing trips and activities.

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He had never seen Jesus before, though his preacher-father and his mother often spoke with Him, and he knew Him as a friendly presence, unlike terrifying God.

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In a victim impact statement Mr Graham's mother Stephanie described her oldest son as a "bright, bubbly, caring and friendly".

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