But when the June Cleaver homemaking phase started to lose its luster, I began to write this book.

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From June Cleaver she gleaned what a family should look like.

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Other countries took note of the fact that policies can no longer be modeled on June Cleaver greeting her husband and children at the end of the day with a meal and a smile.

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Anyway, so we bought this house, and right away I started going through the June Cleaver homemaking phase that all my women friends went through in their twenties and thirties while I was out rockin' and rollin'.

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Who ever coined the notion that women should stay home, make babies, cook dinner, play the role of June Cleaver and of course let the husband be the breadwinner in this current day should have taken a time train into the future by some 50 odd years.

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There was something else, too: Taylor brought along a gift for her daughter, her not-so-June-Cleaver with a salty sense of humor -- "Truly Tasteless Jokes" by Blanche Knott.

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