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Mama's boy
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mama's boy
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Mama's boy
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en 1994 Jack Erdmann Larry Kearney 2 Whiskey’s Children: An Inspiring True Story of Struggle and Redemption New York, N.Y. Kensington Books October 1997 14 https://archive.org/details/whiskeyschildren00jerd/page/n24/mode/1up 1-57566-215-9 He was authoritarian but he was also a Mama’s boy, and his mouth, as I said, was a little soft and a lot contemptuous.
en 2004 Arthur Gewirtz Theatre Guild Year Sidney Howard and Clare Eames: American Theater’s Perfect Couple of the 1920s Jefferson, N.C. w:McFarland & Company 192 https://archive.org/details/sidneyhowardclar0000gewi/page/192/mode/1up 0-7864-1751-X Why would she fall in love with a man who is such a Mama’s boy when, according to the drama, she has had so many other men running after her?
en 2005 w:Frederic Morton 1960: Christmas with the Rothschilds Runaway Waltz: A Memoir from Vienna to New York New York, N.Y. w:Simon & Schuster 120 https://archive.org/details/runawaywaltz00mort/page/120/mode/1up 0-7432-2539-2 “I’m coldy and dead tired. And childish. I miss my parents.” / “So?” she says softly, to my relief because we’ve had arguments about me being such a Mama’s boy. “So?”
en 2009 w:Brad Steiger; Sherry Hansen Steiger Santa Miracles: 50 True Stories That Celebrate the Most Magical Time of the Year Avon, Mass. Adams Media 217 https://archive.org/details/santamiracles50t0000stei/page/217/mode/1up 978-1-59869-612-7 “I was such a Mama’s boy as a kid,” he admitted. “I never stayed overnight at any friend’s house until I was in high school. When I was a little kid, I really couldn’t bear to be away from Mom. I only liked her cooking, and I avoided restaurants, even hamburger or taco stands, until I started dating.”