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Subject: STEPMOTHERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COMMUNITY, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Almost no one in town calls this place a commune anymore, except
Last Line: Older, manny plays catch with him almost every day. Then ben grows up, too
Subject(s): Adoption; Boys; Friendship; Orphans; Stepmothers


HANDS, by MARY ANN SOUTOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: My mother's hands could cradle large, brown jugs with ease
Last Line: Molded to sift the gold long laid away.
Subject(s): Hands; Mothers; Stepmothers


THE STEPMOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First she come to our house
Last Line: She's purt' nigh good as mother was!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Love; Mothers; Stepmothers; Dead, The; Relatives


WEDNESDAY'S CHILD, by MARIE HARRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bill is visiting on spring break. As we talk on the drive home form the
Last Line: Get home in time to watch ourselves on the six o'clock news
Subject(s): Abandonment; Adoption; Boys; Child Custody; Children - Illegitimate; Orphans; Stepfathers; Stepmothers