Friends had to help me with everything -- from driving to typing e-mails to cleaning my room.

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If only our earliest encounters with money, like getting a quarter for cleaning our room or a whole dollar from the Tooth Fairy, taught us what we would need to know about personal finance.

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His mom, Laura, was cleaning the family room downstairs last year when she found a folded-up piece of paper.

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Wollheim describes her extraordinary system of cleaning the house room by room daily, moving all the furniture to the center of the room, then dusting, sweeping and vacuuming.

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According to her family, Ms Rosa was in the kitchen when she was hit by the harpoon, which her husband had been cleaning in the living room.

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Employees here work out their own schedules, swapping hours when somebody has to come in late or leave early and switching furiously among jobs, from assembly tasks on engines to cleaning up the conference room after a meeting.

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Investigators are interviewing everyone with access to the secured room in question, from cleaning crews to diplomats.

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We had a strong room full of stuff belonging to dukes and earls, so you were always used to cleaning good stuff.

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But one thing we know is true: being a mother is a tough job whether you spend your days cleaning house and wrangling kids in and out of multiple carpools, play dates and activities or in a conference room, court room or operating theater and only see the little buggers on nights and weekends.

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