The flight - Invicta Airlines Flight 435 - was full of mothers from Somerset on a day out shopping.

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On a recent spring day, mothers pushing strollers were ubiquitous, said city administrator Mary Peschel, whose office faces the street.

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Instead of getting overwhelmed with seating charts and fighting with their mothers, my clients arrive on their wedding day feeling centered, humbled, and psyched to be a wife.

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On this day she was flanked by Melissa Solares and Megg Andrade, also mothers with children who fall on the autism spectrum.

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In Iraq, there will be no delivery of flowers or long lazy brunches on this Mother's Day, and there are 10, 000 mothers serving in the U.S. military there.

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Overburdened by this long list of responsibilities, anganwadi workers have tended to focus on the group they see every day: children over the age of two whose mothers take advantage of free child care and daily meals offered by the centres.

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