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Single Mom

While life, liberty and equality have been around in the press for a few decades now I always find it amusing to read stories of single moms.

To me they are unmentionable but for some reason they get the headlines.  A single mother of three was selling her underwear to feed the family of five.  Well my point is that there are five people in the family including her husband who is the single husband she has ever had.  Conversely she has been the single wife in keeping with the spirit of do you take this man and not returning him during the annual village garage sale (she originally picked him up at one in someone's driveway).

So the kids are fortunate to have a single mom and single dad rather than being confused by the state of affairs.  In certain states and countries it might be expressly forbidden to mention such news items because there could be a contradiction of terms.

While not a lesbian arrangement there could be a situation where multiple wives are involved and that could lead to statements like - one of the mothers of this family was involved in a fatal car crash (for both car and mother) and the other mothers and wives to a Jogi Donovan have decide to setup a memorial fund for her children.  They really doted that car.

Sometimes there is confusion over which are her children but in order to bring them solace regardless a candle and cow-dung paddy light vigil is being held outside the red barn.  More light will thus be shed on the situation in which the Donovan family finds themselves.

The children meantime have needed much counseling in this moment of grief and have not spoken out to the media about the abhorrent conditions in which they were treated.  Some claimed later to our own Quack Stewonz that one weekend they were only provided a meal of Seaweed and Chiclets with Pumpkin flavor.

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