"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
-Marcelene Cox
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"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.“
-Marcelene Cox
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"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
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