"Failure is not an option" became her motto.

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Her motto is that there are only two people in the world: those that are customers of Squeeze In (a down-home dining institution with four locations in Nevada and California) and those that are not.

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If I thought she'd listen to me, I would have reminded her that our family's motto could be, 'Love goeth before the fall.

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