Henry sells his specially designed jars of sweets, branded Not Before Tea, on his mother's online retro sweet shop.

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Graff grew up on Commercial Road in London's gritty East End, where he spent his first seven years living in a single room with his Jewish Rumanian immigrant mother, behind the corner sweet shop his Russian father opened just before leaving to fight in World War II.

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Was this sweet and pretty girl who was everything his mother was not and who seemed for all practical purposes well beyond the social reach of this awkward math geek the first to explain them to him?

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He also said that the brothers of Oozma Kappa are childlike, especially Squishy, a many-eyed, shy monster who still lives with his mother, Ms. Squibbles, a sweet and surprising character in her own right.

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In my case, that means turkey with sausage and corn bread stuffing--I favor Jimmy Dean sausage and my mother's corn bread recipe--also sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts and several kinds of pie.

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The elegance of his panna cotta with baby peas, finger lime "caviar" and crisp rice flakes was the prelude to a meal that included the best pasta dish I've ever had: maccheroncini, freshly made by the chef's mother, tossed with tomato water, morel mushrooms, sweet datterini tomatoes, fava beans and broccoli rabe.

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An Israeli film entitled Sweet Mud which explores the relationship between a young boy and his mentally ill mother won the World Cinema prize.

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Meanwhile, Isabel Santiago, a 67-year-old widow and neighbor of Pedro Castro, called him a "sweet guy" who used to bring her rice and beans from the house where he lived with his mother across the street.

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