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My correspondent was well on her way to destroying this second shot at picket-fence happiness with jealousy, resenting the phone calls, trying to muscle in on their correspondence and generally behaving in a way you wouldn't exonerate a petulant teenager for.

Dear Mariella: My daughter still loves her father, who was abusive to me, and I feel very bitter about it 2011

Paula Suozzi, the director, filled the stage with picket-fence crowds and left her principals to execute stock gesticulations and stagey embraces.

An All-Too-Bloodless Coup Heidi Waleson 2010

O'Neal calls Fawcett "provincial in many ways," and tells Bennetts that he thinks she may have preferred "a picket-fence kind of life, cooking and doing her art," rather than the strain of Hollywood.

Ryan O'Neal: I Hit On My Daughter Tatum At Farrah's Funeral 2010

O'Neal calls Fawcett "provincial in many ways," and tells Bennetts that he thinks she may have preferred "a picket-fence kind of life, cooking and doing her art," rather than the strain of Hollywood.

Ryan O'Neal: I Hit On My Daughter Tatum At Farrah's Funeral 2010

“Trouble in Tahiti” facetiously peels back a façade of picket-fence Elysium to expose the harsh realities behind it.

In performance: Bernstein and Bolcom at the InSeries 2010

"Despicable Me" looks a lot like other computer-animated pictures: white picket-fence suburbs, rounded characters, sleek and modern - but with a retro afterglow.

'Despicable Me': Oddly Adorable 2010

On reaching the stand, I was posted within about twenty 'yards of a long, high picket-fence, facing the fence and covered by two trees very close together.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

O'Neal calls Fawcett "provincial in many ways," and tells Bennetts that he thinks she may have preferred "a picket-fence kind of life, cooking and doing her art," rather than the strain of Hollywood.

Ryan O'Neal: I Hit On My Daughter Tatum At Farrah's Funeral The Huffington Post News Team 2009

I also get the feeling that the glorified view of the picket-fence marriage, which the authors say is held across the spectrum of the society, turns into an excuse for not making a commitment to marriage or rather to another adult person.

Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Linda 2007

Corny Collins, the grinning pop idol with picket-fence teeth who rules the Baltimore airwaves, is played by an ironed, oiled and camera-ready James Marsden; he reveals comedic talents never tapped before, as well as a singing voice that really swings.

In Summer Heat, Hairspray Is a Welcome Spritz 2007