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I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment.

Erma Bombeck

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Erma Bombeck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1927
Born: February 21
Died: 1996
Died: April 22
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Journalist
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Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
Refreshments
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Sauce
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Thanksgiving
Family
Refreshment

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Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.
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One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other.
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Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
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With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their waste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom.
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There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
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My son would walk to the refrigerator-freezer and fling both doors open and stand there until the hairs in his nose iced up. After surveying $200 worth of food in varying shapes and forms, he would declare loudly, 'There's nothing to eat!'
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Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.
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I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky.
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Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest was initiated by a desire to return to the roots of yesterday. I contend the entire movement to acquire antiques was born out of sheer respect of things that lasted longer than fifteen minutes.
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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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I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.
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