And Garry Shandling, Joan's opening act at the time and Melissa's sometime baby sitter.

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Not wanting to leave him at home with the baby sitter, Glasper's mother brought him along.

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Twelve years ago, as a college student, she saw a woman posting fliers to find a baby sitter.

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Mr. Hagedorn says he initially disliked flying with a "baby sitter, " and missed solo commutes in his own plane.

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Part of the reason is because I'm a working mom and I text with the baby sitter throughout the day.

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Zach Hughes is a 23-year-old Harvard graduate who loves working as a part-time baby sitter for two girls, ages 5 and 6.

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My children were so obsessed that they had their baby sitter also sit the Tamagotchi when they were off taking ice-skating lessons, or whatever.

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"If it becomes more of the norm to have a guy baby sitter, then it will become more of the norm to have a stay-at-home dad, " he says.

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Back in Oklahoma, Amy Williamson, who lives just off I-40 in the western Oklahoma City suburb of Yukon, said when she learned the tornado was moving toward her home, she piled her two young children, baby sitter and two cats into her SUV.

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"What Maisie Knew, " described as a "contemporary imagining" of a Henry James story, is told from the point of view of Maisie, who is buffeted by her self-involved parents' divorce, especially when her father, played by Steve Coogan, marries her baby sitter (Joanna Vanderham) and her mother takes up with a handsome young bartender (Alexander Skarsgard).

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