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Time Bind Mom p.6


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...to the wireless phone on the table. "You have five minutes to get ready for the beach or I'm going without you."

The girls react with glee. The soundtrack breaks exuberantly into the Cyndee Lauper song "Girls just wanna have fun" as the girls race to their rooms to get dressed for the beach, romping about in their flippers and water floats.

AT&T presents the issue in this sympathetic narrative, and then offers her (you?) a way of blocking this guilt. Career women can, if they are agile of mind and spirit (and who wouldn't want to be?), meet everyone's expectations while harmonizing the interaction of work life and family life. They can accomplish this that is, if they choose the appropriate technology.

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