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For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

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Erma Bombeck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1927
Born: February 21
Died: 1996
Died: April 22
Column Author
Journalist
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Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
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Miniseries
Marriages
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Let us hope manufacturers can come up with a diaper that is environmentally sound. To go back to cloth would send us back to the day when breathing and raising a baby at the same time were incompatible.
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You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.
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I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment.
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What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
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Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
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When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.
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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
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Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
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I'm so bored. I went to the food locker yesterday to visit my meat.
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Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.
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I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, I told you so.
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A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, Could I get you your check? and we answered, How about the menu first?
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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
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Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
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My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.
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My mother phones daily to ask, Did you just try to reach me? When I reply no, she adds, So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive, . . . and hangs up.
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