A rather less vile crime

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So I was standing around my mother's flat chatting with her, when I told her - now it can be told - that 27 years ago, when I was in my early teens, I stole one of the books that are now in her bookcase from one of our then-local newsstands.

Name me anyone but a mother who could go into the quivering shakes, 27 years after the fact, at the thought of her son being caught stealing.

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As one whose mother is visiting from California at the moment I can totally see that. Yes, only a mother indeed. In fact, only a few mothers would be like that I bet and I happen to have one of them.

Of course, innocent lil me never got caught stealing. I just did a lot of other very stupid things that I probably still wouldn't mention to her.