My mother stayed at home raising my sister and me.

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In our case, the life insurance paid off the mortgage, and provided enough for my mother to continue to stay at home with us until I was in high school.

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This would leave behind people like my mother, who drinks her coffee at home and believes yoga to be mystical hoodoo.

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My family continues my mother's tradition at Christmas, when we open our home to relatives, neighbors, my six children and even their friends -- extending our family to include those unable to head home for the holidays.

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At any rate, for what it's worth, as both a stay at home mother until my sons were in high school and then a four-day-a week office manager to a plastic surgeon I have experienced both sides of the equation.

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The first green of evening, my mother had always called it, sitting on the back step at home, watching the Peruvian lilies and the montbretia fade into the gloaming.

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My mother wanted to know why I had not come to live at home after finals, and I told her that a kindly older tutor was preparing me for my interview.

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But he really found me, because I wasn't - at that time, my mother - I had ran away from home.

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My mother had bought Murphy for me during a semester that I took off from college and lived at home in Alabama.

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