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  • Not for a second or two, but for close to half a minute, then the victims' fostermother arrives and drags the aggressor off of the other girl and gives her a good smack in the head as she lets her go.

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  • Not for a second or two, but for close to half a minute, then the victims' fostermother arrives and drags the aggressor off of the other girl and gives her a good smack in the head as she lets her go.

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  • Here is one, who has been to you more than a brother, and here is the fostermother that has fitted you for your great career, and now offers you one of her most important professorships.

    The Mystery of Monastery Farm H. R. Naylor

  • There was a good gipsy woman among our people who died last year, and who had always taken care of me like a fostermother.

    I. The Little Shoe. Book XI 1917

  • Dear fostermother, the spring and the music are in my heart!

    Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

  • DEIRDRE -- Dear fostermother, I think my dream is coming near to me.

    Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

  • DEIRDRE -- Why do you talk so strangely, fostermother?

    Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

  • You still love me dear fostermother; but you, who are wise, could you not have warned the Lights of Valor?

    Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

  • I looked into his eyes, and he started like one who sees a vision; and I know, dear fostermother, he will come here, and he will love me.

    Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

  • DEIRDRE -- Will he love me, fostermother, as you love me, and will he live with us here?

    Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

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