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A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.Frances ORoark Dowell
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What's really weird is my mom's clothes smell like her. I mean, her perfume, and so all day it's like m mom has been walking right beside me. Which, you have to admit, a pretty freaky feeling.Frances ORoark Dowell
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He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.p92Frances ORoark Dowell
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I like your mama, ' Trena tells me. 'She seems like good people.'' Smile! ' my mom calls to me from across the room, and I look at her and smile. Because she is good people. And she means well, even if she does drive me crazy.Frances ORoark Dowell
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My dad, who my mom always refers to as DH for Darling Husband, was protrayed as a 'let's look on the bright side of things' kind of guy, the pillar my everbumbling mother leans on in times of distress.Frances ORoark Dowell