31.   And your mother said you were wasting your time playing Doom.

32.   And, said her mother, Suzy Spencer, Tiffany knew about overcoming obstacles.

33.   Another mother said her kids always get a bag from Toys for Tots.

34.   As a baby, his mother said, he could be content in his playpen for hours if there were enough toy trucks at hand.

35.   As he lay dying in a hospice, his mother said she was going to call a priest to say the last rites, Mahoney said.

36.   As my mother would say, what could be bad?

37.   At the time of his death, Nathaniel was living at a group home in suburban Winnetka that he entered on his own, his mother said.

38.   Before Adrian Juchau learned to walk, his mother said, he was already trying to conduct.

39.   Before going to Africa, said his mother, Bonnie Hobson, Hobson was given a choice of four other assignments, all close to home.

40.   Before entering college, Chavez had been oblivious to racial differences, her mother said.