41.   Jewish mothers have no more than three children on average.

42.   So my mother had all her family spread for the tea.

43.   Although my mother had some of the same vices, the volume of her clipped recipes never rivaled her sister.

44.   Am I to assume that all mothers have this spooky quality?

45.   And for the last five years she has taken several girls whose mothers did not have professional careers to watch what hers did.

46.   And Maria Fedulova expects that more mothers will have to do what she did on a bleak January day four years ago.

47.   And mother had a special place in her heart of prayers for our sister Rosemary, for her bravery and the things that she taught us all.

48.   And the perpetually cynical Miranda ... whoa, Miranda is in a Philadelphia hospital because her mother has just had a heart attack.

49.   And when my mother has a ceremony of her own, those relatives return the favor by bringing their own sheep for food.

50.   As each child was taken, Ms. Whitmore figures, her mother would have another, hoping that this time she could keep one for herself.