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For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder.

Pam Brown

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Pam Brown
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 1
Performing Artist
Poet
Writer
Seymour
Victoria
Australia
Mind
Keep
Occasionally
Mother
Entirely
Part
Son
Better
Sake
Must
Wife
Even
Future
Astonish
Heart
Family
Wives
Every
Woman
Sons

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