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Article: THE LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP OF MOTHERS, CHILDREN NEVER STOPS

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May 16, 1996
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"And an undershirt, please." To sane people, the words hardly seem capable of igniting a spurt of lava-hot rage. But what's sane about what smolders between some mothers and daughters?

I'd walked in on Mom as she was bathing my infant son. Typically, she was doing several things expertly at once: Kissing, scrubbing, babbling in perfect babyspeak--"Grammudda gonna wash de baby boy's tinky feet!" Charmed, I said, "Let me get you his clothes for the day."

To which she replied, "And an undershirt, please."

She may as well have screeched, "(Expletive) you!"

As if I would let my baby freeze, I ...

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