What does family mean to you? ... Next, Matalin recalls that she got blamed for their death, "Mommy, you left them in the windows. ... This is a minor case of criticism, however when you look at the age of her daughter, you can see that this can easily develop into a major problem later in life. ... Katy says that she remembers a night when she went into the bathroom and let out a lot of verbal aggression towards God, yelling at him, "How could you leave me like this?" Days like these are outweighed by the tremendous social support that Katy and her family receive from neighb...

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It always seemed that every girl I truly liked would never like me back, and all the girls that did like me were, well you know, ugly. ... How many times you ask? ... Not one girl has ever liked me for the way I am. ... There's always those quiet people that actually still like you for the way you are even if you"re absurd like me, but you are never able to consider how beautiful of a person they really are. ... I have found through experiments that it is only your true friends that like you for who you are. ...

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"How can a guy grow up in a circus like that?" ... "You"re tearing me apart." ... Then you will be a good American, and America salutes you. ... "Don't I buy you everything you want?" ... What kind of music is this, parents wanted to know, you just don't get it do you, you just don't understand, said the kids. ...

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But not every family is like that. ... I think in families like that, the pressure to be perfect is definitely on. ... Aren't you the least bit curious to know that if you were in another family would your life be like this? ... "It was just like I had two moms, I didn't think anything of it". ... My parents didn't raise me to think that I had to be like them because that's not something you can just say you are. ...

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"He used to walk home after a day like that, and Samira would be there. ... As you begin to look at the two stories you can tell how Dee and Jimmy are alike in a lot of ways. ... Just like monkey see monkey do. ... Just like her mom had done. ... Just like in Everyday Use when Maggie used that butter churn every day; is just like monkey see monkey do (Monkey Business) the way the man in the meat shop was trying to get Zizi to cut meat like him....

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You often tell me you want to be a scientist, and that's awesome! ... I want, through this letter, to offer you a kind of guideline I would like you to follow for when you become a parent. Or even use as a reference when you feel like you don't understand the reasons why you act or feel a certain way. ... I have to admit my temper got worse the first few months of pregnancy; I felt like I hated your father, everything seemed to irritate me. ... Get you to like it, because it's healthy for you and it will keep you busy, away from the streets and from playing video games in for l...

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"What tha hell happened to you?... I know what you're thinking, if you are spoiled then why are you getting hit? ... You been looking like you lost yo puppy all day today."" ... That day was like a blur to me except for the conversation that Erika and I had. ... It was like a big weight came off my shoulder. ...

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Communication is important from when you're small till you grow up and begin thinking for yourself. ... Like for instance the way he would get mad at the smallest things that I did and start yelling at me like crazy got me scared. ... In the book (pg.73) it talks about how appraisals could be very different based on the person that gives you that appraisal like it has to be someone close to you someone that you have trusted for a long time, for example parents because they have been around us for a long time they raised us and you've put in your head that your parents know it all abo...

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"I mean they"re all right if they go around saving innocent guys" lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you"re a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hotshot. How would you know you weren't being a phony? ... "I like Allie," I said. "And I like doing what I"m doing right now. ...

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Opening it slightly, she could hear the screaming much louder now, like she had opened the door to hell. ... I can't sleep with them screaming like this all the time. ... Like we always do,"" Dave retorted. ... You act like you haven't done that before. If you hadn't noticed already, that's what we want you to do!...

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"I mean they"re all right if they go around saving innocent guys" lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you"re a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. How would you know you weren't being a phony? ... "I like Allie," I said. "And I like doing what I"m doing right now. ...

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If you die, you will have a short life and you will still owe your family a debt. ... Too much water and you flowed in too many directions, like myself, for having started half a degree in biology, then half a degree in art, and then finished neither when I went off to work for a small ad agency as a secretary, later becoming a copywriter." ... A girl is like a young tree," she said. ... And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away. ... And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Toge...

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I told Lori how lucky we were to be sleeping out under the sky like Indians. "We could live like this forever," I said. ... "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. ... You just have to find it....

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I don't like them to tell me what I have to like just because I'm Mexican. ... Then and probably still now you work for your family usually not getting more that what you need. He like many other people wanted more, greedy for life. ... He was able to become legal because of a law that said that if you where working for 90 days you could file for papers. ... "ése es todo lo que necesitas, todo lo puedes conseguir alli-, " that's all you need, everything else you can get there. ...

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You don't know how encouraging it is for me to see so many parents making the effort to be here, to take advice from an expert like myself. ... For example: " Sally where are you going Sally should you really be going for a jog this close to three o"clock you know the mailman comes at three well then have a nice time oh dear take a jacket it's getting cold out sunscreen, those Ultra UV rays are very deceiving ok sorry you go have a nice time I"ll just wait here till you get back no I"ll be fine here, besides I don't have any jogging shoes don't talk to any strangers Sall...

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It's like no one is even living within the walls of the English tutor home. ... It seemed like the "in thing" was parents getting a divorce. We felt like a minority moving here because our parents were still together. ... At times like these is when my sister and I spent as much time together as possible. ... Do you ever think things happen in your life to teach you a lesson? ...

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" I proudly say, "Thank you so much mommy, I couldn't of did it without you.... Told everybody bye see you later. ... When I tell you I was looking like Gabrielle Union, I mean I was looking like Gabrielle Union. ... I made it through 13 years of knowledge and now I begin to feel like an adult. ... Where I feel like is home and where I choose to be. ...

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Like any other task, the most efficient way of brick laying was sought out. ... Gilbreth Jr. had many wonderful ways of teaching his children that I would like to use while raising my family some day, however I can assure you that there will not be twelve of them. ... This family was run like a factory. ... If you are Irish you should not pat a toll on my road. ... Or is it implying that if you were a woman scholar, it is probably because you had nothing else going for you? ...

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That night Sajda came home at about 11o"clock, four hours late before being seen by her mum, Saida was going to ask Sajda what have you been doing today, but couldn't bare the shame if Sajda was to tell the truth, and she felt like she was a bad mother and hadn't brought Sajda up the normal Muslim way of life. ... Sajda said to her mother later that night, "Mum I've got an offer to make for you, either you let me and Mohsin get engaged or we"ll leave home for good" At that point Saida just panicked and said "I"ll tell you tomorrow evening" Sajda agreed to that ...

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Nothing is too big that you cannot achieve because Po Po believes in you.... Wipe away your tears and Po Po will tell you a story of a girl just like you.... This young girl was not able to lead a normal life like any other child. ... She did not want her only daughter to live a life like hers. ... Many thought that she would either be a prostitute like her childhood friends or a gambler like her mum but she proved all of them wrong. ...

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I drank all the milk and then stayed with him like a loyal slave. ... He started talking to me and said "I know you too lost someone lately. It was visible in your eyes and so I decided to bring you home because I am also in the same condition as you. ... I am also alone, like you, and so I thought we both will give good company to each other. ... Though I got pampered, it was in a completely different form and I really liked it. ...

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The story pushes me to be annoyed with Joyce, and genuinely like Anna. ... Instead of rejoicing in her cousin's new love and happiness, she says things like "People will say you"re greedy"(413), or "They say you"re marrying him to get things" (413). ... On the other hand, Anna looks like a saint compared to Joyce. ... Writers want you to see characters and their personalities in a certain way, and the way Anna treats her son makes readers like her. ... She tells Anna, "What makes you think he"d [the doctor] come for yours[Chaske]?"...

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"What do you mean you think she's dead"? ... Why would you want to hurt your daughter and make her look at her dead mother, rather then doing it yourself? ... I would also say to my father are you nuts, for making your own son look. ... He shouldn't have acted like that around his own daughter. ... It seemed like a real true-life story. ...

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"What do you mean you think she's dead"? ... Why would you want to hurt your daughter and make her look at her dead mother, rather then doing it yourself? ... I would also say to my father are you nuts, for making your own son look. ... He shouldn't have acted like that around his own daughter. ... It seemed like a real true-life story. ...

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Papa didn't run this like a family he ran it like a business. ... I could not stand the Don he treated my mother like a two dollar whore. ... You got it. ... So the plot thickens we decide to just do it like an execution. ... A family you could never be a part of. ...

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