When I was little, my mom told me that my freckles were special.

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And my mom told me, you have to smash the ball, and if you don't, then you'll give other people chances to win the point.

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"I didn't believe it when my mom told me, " he says.

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Mr. FRED SULTERS (Employee, Springs Industries): Everybody here - my mom told me when I considered going somewhere else to work she thought I was crazy.

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That's what my mom told me, anyway.

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My mom just told me a child at a local school wrote on his face with a permanent marker.

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"Mary Ann knocked on my door and told me my mom was on the phone, " Than says.

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But my mom never would have told me so.

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"When coach told me about my mom then I just broke down with tears of sadness, " Leo said.

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"I remember my children calling me and saying that mom wasn't home, " Lee Heist told CNN.

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When I asked my close friend, a stay-at-home mom, about it, she told me about her own husband, who had to miss the first week that their young son spent at a new school because of a business trip.

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