When our mother went to the ladies' room, Danielle briefed me on what I'd missed.
Sophia Mitchell, operations manager of Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum in Reno, Nev.
If our mother noticed something awry in her suspiciously tidy yet reeking kitchen, she gave no sign of it.
She was the one who most took after our mother, I think now.
Though Danielle is tall and golden blond and our mother was petite and brunette, they were unmistakably mother and daughter.
Our mother always asked afterward if we had had a good time.
After the television was turned off, Caro and I were sent outside to run around, as our mother said, and get some fresh air.
There's one other important indicator on our Mother's Index: political status.
Nnamabia shook his head as if our mother did not understand.
So entrenched are these concerns that even our early experiences of being fed may have involved ingesting our mother's anxiety about food along with her milk.
But then she made the mistake of trying it again, maybe a week later, and this time, though nobody on the bus or at school suspected her, our mother did.
Our mother, Maud, and I were always waiting for Vivi: in the hall before we went to church or shouting for her from the landing to hurry up for school.
"The cow is our mother, it's our duty to protect her, " said Mongia, who monitors and raids hundreds of stores, butcher shops and slaughterhouses suspected of carrying, selling or slaughtering India's blessed bovines.
'Despite the support shown to us and our mother's memory by so many people over the last eight years, we feel that, as her sons, we would be failing in our duty to her now if we did not protect her - as she once did us.
It is not only deeply painful for the two of us but also for everyone else affected and it would mortify our mother if she were alive today and, if we might say so, we feel we are more able to speak for our mother than Paul.
His energetic meticulousness (passed on from our mother) and his breathtaking perseverance (passed on from our father) served only to magnify my awe of an older brother who everyone agreed was intended for great things, while most boys his age didn't look as though they were intended even to eat at a table with another human being.
"It is with great love and heavy hearts that we say farewell to our collective Mother, with a capital M, " said her son and daughter, John Putch and Pamela Putch, in a statement.
Marina became sort of our aunt and mother from that moment on.
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Both the need and desire to celebrate our matrons make Mother's Day the third-largest spending holiday of the year, behind the winter holidays and Valentine's Day.
"Simply put, our families -- his mother, who left behind two beautiful boys ... our father, the four other victims, the people who were shot and are in the hospital, the police officer who did his job -- they are heroes, " he said.
One of our vice presidents, a single mother of twins, innovatively runs the operations of our big event, the International CES. She and countless other incredible mothers on our staff strive on a daily basis to balance their careers, their families and, most important, their children.
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