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housemother

noun as in madam

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noun as in matron

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Melissa follows behind, Dasani slams the door in her housemother’s face.

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Before long, a housemother at the school was punishing them for it.

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But she changed her major to chemistry on the advice of her housemother; World War II was creating new opportunities for women in a field that had been a male preserve.

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Sorority sisters and their drunken housemother fall prey to an obscene yuletide caller.

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Ghosts invade a sorority on Halloween night, and when the housemother starts killing the sisters, the survivors have to make it through the night.

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