And if you walk through a well-to-do place like Teddington, you can see children's T-shirts in the shop window with the only slightly ironic slogan "My daddy's rich and my mother's good looking".

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Going back a good few years, I will always remember my mother preaching to me that I should save up for all the good things in life ... sadly I did not listen and as a result I am now facing the consequences.

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"That's a good idea, " my mother said.

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Example: Last Christmas my mother said she read a good book and tomorrow I will read the book she recommended.

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My mother had to devote a good portion of every day for the next few months to a quadruple mission.

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The wall-to-wall carpeting in my mother-in-law's home feels good underfoot.

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And I make a very good salary, but just going through caring for my mother the last year and a half, and before that, my father, who, thank God, lived to ripe old ages -- it was -- it's not easy.

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My mother works as nurse in a private hospital and she has a good income.

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Though, from all that I know of his nature and his feelings for my mother, I think he may have been proud to see how good she looked in these liberating styles and how well she fit in with the theatre people.

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