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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Actor Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Douglas Gardham’s The Actor book blitz October 6 – October 17!   Title: The Actor Author: Douglas Gardham Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 352 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON It is 1991 when Ethan Jones finally wins the role of his dreams in an upcoming, big screen movie. With the envelope holding the script clutched in his hand, he arrives at his California apartment where he can hardly wait to tell his girlfriend the exciting news. But when he finds the door unexpectedly ajar, he has no idea that in just a few seconds, the life he has fought so hard to obtain
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Love Cycles Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Arlow Bailey’s Love Cycles book blitz October 6 – October 17! Title: Love Cycles Author: Arlow Bailey Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 108 Genre: Body, Mind, Spirit Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON After a failure in a relationship. The author starts all over in his entire way of thinking. This book walks us through Arlow’s look on Spirituality, Life, Looking for Love, Finding Love, Lost Loves and then doing Positive Affirmations in order to find the strength to do it all again. Thus Love Cycles. Look for his new book Creative Dating to be coming our soon. Creative Dating is the first attempt to change showing
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Conscious Experience Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you W.H. Sparks’ Conscious Experience book blitz October 6 – October 17!   Title: Conscsious Experience Author: W.H. Sparks Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 164 Genre: Philosophy Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON The fundamental principles that explain the heretofore mysterious phenomena of consciousness are: (1) Consciousness is energies of the environment, and energies developed in intrafusal muscle spindles are conscious experience, and (2) the experience occurring as the developed energies, depending on purpose and intensity, are detected by muscle receptors. The conscious experience occurs as perception (the experience of the environment), imagery (imagination, memory, and dreams), feelings (emotion), or, when agreed to, the meanings of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wings That Spread Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ramesh Sangle’s Wings That Spread book blitz October 6 – October 17! Title: Wings That Spread Author: Ramesh Sangle Publisher: PartridgeIndia Pages: 202 Genre: Family/Relationship Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON This is the story of two loving souls, Jessica, a Spanish village girl and Aniket, son of the Indian Ambassador to Spain, who first meet at a school competition. As they grow older, they fell in love with each other. But, circumstances forced them to move on with their separate lives and Aniket moves back to India. Tragedy strikes their lives individually and they both loose their loved ones. Can Jessica and
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Natsuya Uesugi, author of grydscaen

  Title: grydscaen Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Author: Natsuya Uesugi Publisher: Xlibris EBook: 288 pages Release Date: July 21, 2011 Follow the lives of the main characters as they come together in the backstory to grydscaen:retribution, the first volume of the grydscaen saga. Faid is tired of life on the run in the Echelons, trying to keep his psychic power in check, he founds the Packrats establishing a safe haven for psychics. As a hacker he uses his jack to support his neurocyne habit. Lino is recruited by the Psi Faction and is sent on a mission to kidnap Faid. Riuho, Lino’s half brother becomes a prisoner of the Elite military and they experiment
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Anybody’s Daughter Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Pamela Samuels Young’s Anybody’s Daughter virtual book tour November 3 – January 30! Title: Anybody’s Daughter Author: Pamela Samuels Young Genre: Mystery/Thriller Publisher: Goldman House Publishing Pages: 376 Purchase at AMAZON Is Anybody’s Daughter Ever Safe? Based on the real-life horrors faced by thousands of girls, award-winning author Pamela Samuels Young takes readers deep inside the disturbing world of child sex trafficking in a fast-paced thriller that educates as much as it entertains. The opening chapter of Anybody’s Daughter introduces readers to thirteen-year-old Brianna Walker. She’s ecstatic because she’s about to sneak off to meet her first real boyfriend—a boyfriend she met on
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Living with Heart Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you L. Reynolds Andiric’s Living with Heart book blitz October 6 – October 17!     Title: Living with Heart Author: L. Reynolds Andiric Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 266 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Reflections from the heart: intimate and provocative An eclectic assortment of sensitive, reflective, and occasionally spiritual short stories relates the experiences of an adventurous seeker and world traveler. Never a mere spectator of life, but always fully participating, L. Reynolds Andiric relays stories of intimate connections with nature and family as well as memorable exchanges with individuals randomly encountered along life’s way. Each tale conveys an insightful experience that broadened
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Pump Up Your Book Presents There’s a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John T. Langeld’s There’s a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory book blitz October 6 – October 17!   Title: There’s a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory Author: John T. Langfeld Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 220 Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON With the desire of making others feel, think, and smile, author John Langfeld shares a diverse collection of aurally and visually unique poetry written over the course of more than thirty years of working with language as a technology. Influenced by the ideas, themes, and poetic devices that have tested both him and his students over the years, Langfeld offers poems that
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Alzheimer’s Through Tears and Laughter Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Edwina Marino’s Alzheimer’s Through Tears and Laughter book blitz September 15 – September 26!   Title: Alzheimer’s Through Tears and Laughter Author: Edwina Marino Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 83 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Today, there is a disease afflicting many people and arousing fear in those whose ages can start as young as forty years, and moving on through the sixties, seventy and eighty year old groups. It is known as Alzheimer’s Disease. This book is about sharing this experience with my sister-in-law who came down with this disease in her later years. She was eighty-four at the time and lived
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ashleigh’s Fall Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ruth Ferguson’s Ashleigh’s Fall book blitz September 15 – September 26! Title: Ashleigh’s Fall Author: Ruth Ferguson Publisher: Partridge Publishing Pages: 33 Genre: Children’s Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Ten-year-old Jessica is pedaling as fast as she can with her friend Ashleigh on her bicycle following her. Jessica wants to get home before the storm hits. But when she decides to take the dirt track with a sharp drop-off on one side, everything suddenly changes. After Ashleigh’s chain slips off her bicycle, she stops to fix it and accidentally falls over the side of the cliff. As thunder rumbles and the sky
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Hidden Truth Behind Beautiful Smiles Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Zack Zaibak’s The Hidden Truth Behind Beautiful Smiles book blitz September 15 – September 26!   Title: The Hidden Truth Behind Beautiful Smiles Author: Zack Zaibak Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 152 Genre: Medical/Dentristry Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON We are often judged by how we look, and the first thing people notice is a smile. In The Hidden Truth Behind Beautiful Smiles, author Dr. Zack Zaibak tells how modern cosmetic dentistry can transform ordinary smiles into stunning gorgeous ones. Dr. Zaibak, honored by the Consumers Research Council of America for the last five years as one of America’s top dentists, discusses important issues relating
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Afternoons with Grandma Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laxmi Jagadish’s Afternoons with Grandma book blitz September 15 – September 26! Title: Afternoons with Grandma Author: Laxmi Jagadish Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 62 Genre: YA Fiction/Fantasy Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Children often learn a lot about life from stories, and Grandma knows it. That’s why she’s sharing these six stories she’s collected from all over the world with her grandchildren, the twins Josh and Tamara. These tales of self-confidence, honesty, and bravery expose children to the lives of people unlike themselves, guiding them to build good, strong characters. Milo’s perseverance as she tries to get to the Magic Lake, Lee’s determination to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents First Harvest Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mat Kondo’s First Harvest book blitz September 15 – September 26!   Title: First Harvest Author: Mat Kondo Publisher: Partridge Publishing Pages: 102 Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON First Harvest is the culmination of ten years of work, presenting verses that were madly scribbled down in cafes during lunch breaks, from the flashing windows of commuter trains, or while walking the streets of Tokyo at midnight. In this, his first collection of poetry, poet Mat Kondo offers us a peek into the mind of a man deeply in love with the world and equally troubled by the existing state of affairs.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Until the End: A Fight For Survival Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jesus Gutierrez’s Until the End: A Fight for Survival book blitz September 15 – September 26!   Title: Until the End: A Fight For Survival Author: Jesus Gutierrez Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 126 Genre: Family and Relationship Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON In 1985, when a small freckle on Fanny Gutiérrez’s cheek grew to the size of a quarter and turned dark brown, the young mother sought medical advice. She soon learned she had malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer. In Until the End, her husband, author Jesús L. Gutiérrez, shares her battle with cancer and how the diagnosis and treatment affected Fanny,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents What is Growing Out of Your Ear Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Angela Graham’s What is Growing Out of Your Ear book blitz September 1 – September 12!     Title: What is Growing Out of Your Ear Author: Angela Graham Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 24 Genre: Children’s Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON It is summer and Angela eats a bowl of cherries. After she swallows some cherry pits, her Grandpa warns what will happen — “A cherry tree will grow out of your ear.” Angela thinks that is silly. Do you believe a cherry tree can grow out of Angela’s ear?    Angela Graham lives in Ottawa, Canada with her husband, two lively children
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Pump Up Your Book Presents What is Growing Out of Your Ear by Angela Graham Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Angela Graham’s What is Growing Out of Your Ear book blitz September 1 – September 12!     Title: What is Growing Out of Your Ear Author: Angela Graham Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 24 Genre: Children’s Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON It is summer and Angela eats a bowl of cherries. After she swallows some cherry pits, her Grandpa warns what will happen — “A cherry tree will grow out of your ear.” Angela thinks that is silly. Do you believe a cherry tree can grow out of Angela’s ear?    Angela Graham lives in Ottawa, Canada with her husband, two lively children
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Pump Up Your Book Presents To Thee We Do Cry Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Patricia Monohan’s To Thee We Do Cry book blitz September 1 – September 12!     Title: To Thee We Do Cry Author: Patricia Monohan Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 112 Genre: Spiritual Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON In what was the most devastating event of their lives, Tom and Pat Monahan lost their nine-year-old grandson, Tommy, in a house fire in December of 2007. This unimaginable tragedy rocked their lives with pain and sorrow beyond description, of a kind and strength they had never dreamed of. As a way of dealing with this unspeakable grief, Pat Monahan practiced what she preached as a professional
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Torn Body, One Soul Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jamal Assadi’s Torn Body, One Soul book blitz September 1 – September 12!   Title: Torn Body, One Soul Author: Jamal Assadi Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 178 Genre: Romance Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON In Torn Body, One Soul, four Palestinian writers—sons and daughters of a Palestinian people torn apart—tell their own tales of their predicament, estrangement, and marginalization, their expectations and visions in a new, magnified voice, first to their people, then to their nation, and to a wider English-speaking public. The seventh book in a series of volumes on Palestinian authors, this collection of short stories, translated and edited by Jamal Assadi, contains
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Half the Man I Used to Be Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brian Gross’ Half the Man I Used to Be book blitz September 1 – September 12!   Title: Half the Man Used to Be Author: Brian Gross Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 167 Genre: Self-Help/Motivational Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON All humans have weaknesses. Even mythical warriors and superheroes have a weakness. For author Brian Ray Gross, that weakness is food. This creates an interesting paradox: food is intended to strengthen, nourish, and sustain—but when we consume too much, we become weakened by it. In this weakness, we cannot be the people God intends for us to be. In Half the Man I Used to Be,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mountain Biking in the Tao Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark Tracey’s Mountain Biking in the Tao book blitz September 1 – September 12!   Title: Mountain Biking in the Tao Author: Mark Tracey Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 90 Genre: Sports/Recreation Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON “Mountain Biking in the Tao is the seminal work on Taoist philosophy and how it applies to mountain biking and life. Inspired by years of riding and meditation it gives the best possible advice on how to properly ride your mountain bike. Relax, be who you are, then go ride in the Tao on the trail nearest your own home.”     Since 1996, Mark Tracey has ridden the mountains
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Corkscrew Life Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Richard Caulson’s A Corkscrew Life book blitz September 1 – September 12!   Title: A Corkscrew Life Author: Richard Coulson Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 322 Genre: Biography/Personal Memoir Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Richard Coulson’s memoir of his peripatetic life vividly describes his unique travels and the exceptional people he met along the way. His adventures began at birth and continued into his childhood with his glamorous mother in Nassau, Bahamas. Following an Ivy League education and army service in Korea, he became a New Yorker practicing law with a major Wall Street firm. His move into investment banking led to eight years in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Darkest Side of Saturn Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tony Taylor’s The Darkest Side of Saturn book blitz September 1 – September 12!       Title: The Darkest Side of Saturn Author: Tony Taylor Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 492 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON It’s 1997 at a mountaintop observatory in Southern California where spacecraft navigator Harris Mitchel and astronomer Diana Muse-Jones discover a dangerous asteroid which may hit the earth within two decades. As the asteroid tumbles through space towards an uncertain impact, Harris and Diana fight bitterly over how to announce their discovery. When Harris goes public to a skeptical world—at the cost of his and Diana’s
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Jean Hackensmith, author of ‘Identity Crisis’

I have been writing since the age of twenty.  (That’s 37 years and, yes, I’m disclosing my age.)  I am the proud mother of three, stepmother of two, and grandmother to twelve wonderful children.  I lost the love of my life, my husband Ron, in November of 2011 when he died in an accident at work.  He took my heart with him and, for a time, my desire to write.  Time, as they say, heals all wounds, and I have again discovered my passion for the written word.  In fact, I find it strangely comforting to delve into the intricate webs that are my character’s lives and immerse myself
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Pump Up Your Book Presents More Precious Than Rubies Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Randy Coates’ More Precious Than Rubies book blitz August 4 – August 15!   Title: More Precious Than Rubies Author: Randy Coates Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 174 Genre: Fantasy Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Paul Brager is twelve when his father tells the story of Iduna and her apples. Mr. Brager always tells stories before bed to entertain Paul’s little brother, Adrian—a ritual that has become even more important since their mother died. Iduna was a goddess who grew apples that made the gods younger and stronger, but one day she disappeared, along with her apples. Paul doesn’t think much of the myth;
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Banana Bunch Book Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dawn Carroll’s The Banana Bunch Book book blitz August 4 – August 29!     Title: The Banana Bunch Author: Dawn Carroll Publisher: Amolibros Pages: 120 Genre: Children’s Book Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON The monkeys have a human friend called Sheila. Sheila is in hospital – and she hates the hospital food. The monkeys decide that something simply has to be done… When their first attempt at delivering bananas to Sheila is thwarted the monkeys decide to form The Banana Bunch, a secret society dedicated to the delivery of delicious, health-giving bananas to Sheila and all the other unwell people at
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Pump Up Your Book Presents It’s Your Decision Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ed Grizzle’s It’s Your Decision book blitz July 21 – August 1!   Title: It’s Your Decision Author: Ed Grizzle Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 128 Genre: Family Relationships/Parenting Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Children are gifts from God, but parenting those children can often be a difficult task. In It’s Your Decision, author Ed Grizzle shows how parenting can be successful when it’s carried out according to God’s plan. Using his life’s experiences as a guide, Grizzle explores the importance of making the right decisions in life—from choosing the right lifestyle and the right mate and to raising children according to what God has planned
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Psyche-Soul-Ology Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Roberts’ Psyche-Soul-Ology book blitz July 21 – August 1! Title: Psyche-Soul-Ology Author: David Roberts Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 202 Genre: Psychology Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Psyche-Soul-ology: An Inspirational Approach to Appreciating and Understanding Troubled Kids is a companion text to At the Mercy of Externals: Righting Wrongs and Protecting Kids, 2nd Edition. Dr. Roberts presents a spiritually based application of his theories and the Roberts FLAGS Model detailed in his first book. His use of the term Psyche-Soul-ology focuses on the importance of addressing both the minds and souls of troubled kids. Of utmost importance is the need to look beyond
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Parker Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephanie Macniel’s Parker virtual book tour August 4 – 29! ABOUT PARKER Title: Parker Genre: Young Adult Author: Stephanie Macneil Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 226 pages Release Date: November 20, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-47596-038-9 The secret came out a few years ago: Parker Knight is gay. Now Parker is sixteen, and everyone has either embraced it, does not care, or has forgotten—everyone except for Dylan Baker. He is determined to make Parker’s life miserable. Parker really thought killing himself would make everything better. If he was dead, he would not have to get kicked around by Dylan and his friends anymore. He would be free. Now, after a failed
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dark South Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you William Stewart’s Dark South book blitz July 21 – August 1! Title: Dark South Author: William Stewart Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 458 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON In the mysterious dark South, strange old ladies, killers, hucksters, deceivers, and the unhinged lurk in the shadows where they are forced to confront inexplicable forces they do not understand. After a couple books a room in the famous Hotel Le Grande in New Orleans, one of them disappears, leaving the other to follow a bizarre trail to a sealed room where a gruesome murder took place some fifty years earlier. Uncle Poot, who has
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dakota Gold Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen Wilson’s Dakota Gold book blitz July 21 – August 1!     Title: Dakota Gold Author: Karen Wilson Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 80 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Karen Wilson watched as a little tyke came running from the group of golden retriever puppies as fast as his little legs would carry him. Wearing a red ribbon, he was the most adorable bundle of golden softness she had ever seen. As soon as he reached her and she picked him up, he settled in her arms and immediately captured her heart. There was no question that she was his mama and
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