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Subject:Re: Mom From:Steve Fouts <sfouts -at- ELLISON -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 16 Nov 1994 11:39:25 CST
Jan Boomsliter asks:
|} Let me throw this one Out There: do adults in all regions of the
|} country call their mothers "Mom?"
|}
Let's see, born in Montana, raised in Idaho, Montana, and Washington.
I would never refer to my Mom as Mother or my Dad as Father. Just
doesn't sit right. Gather from that what you will.
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