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MOTHER KNOWS BEST

“MY MOTHER DID AN EXCELLENT JOB DURING MY TEEN YEARS, OF GIVING ME TWO BEAUTIFUL THINGS: FREEDOM FROM PARENTAL ANXIETY, SCRUTINY AND GREAT FOOD”

Apart from enforced attendance at family dinners, I was pretty much feral as a teenager. I think my mother took an accurate measure of my needs and personality somewhere around 1981 and decided that as long as the family fridge was kept well stocked,

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