31.   Even my mother has taken to E-mailing me instead of calling.

32.   Fewer mothers take time off in the summers to care for school-aged children on vacation.

33.   Faithfully, every Sunday, amid howls of protest, my mother took us to church.

34.   Furious, her mother took her off the team.

35.   He graduated from William Chrisman High School in Independence, Mo., a few years ago after his mother had taken a job in the Kansas City area.

36.   He helped his father deliver seltzer from a horse cart on weekdays, and if he behaved, his mother took him on the ferry to Manhattan on Sundays.

37.   He told of how the family finances suffered and how his mother took three years to teach his father to walk and talk again.

38.   Her mother took in laundry and drank.

39.   He was only an infant the first time his mother took him to the parade.

40.   Her mother took her to the doctor, thinking she might have the flu.