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Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.

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
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The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
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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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Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
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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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Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.
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I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.
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Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.
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Written on her tombstone: I told you I was sick.
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