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Benni Austin
Fatima’s mom is an environmental scientist; she’s logical and methodical, and she encourages Fatima to think about things in the same way. Along with her husband, Fatima’s dad, Fatima’s mom is protective of her daughter and Fatima fears that if her mom knew about how difficult the walk home from school sometimes is, she’d forbid Fatima from walking home alone. Fatima’s mom’s science lessons inspire Fatima to begin keeping a notebook of all the things that do and don’t change on her way home from school each day.
Fatima’s Mom Quotes in Look Both Ways
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4. How to Look (Both) Both Ways
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[…] but she left out the part about the woman in the pink pants because she knew if she told her mother, […] that would be the end of walking. That would be the end of a babysitterless life. Back to cheese-toast snack time and other coughy kids whining about what they want to watch on TV. And she didn’t want that because even though the first walk was rough, anything was worth trying again if it meant she could come home and be alone in her house, where she could microwave nuggets and pretend to be a flight attendant like her father.
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Fatima’s Mom Quotes in Look Both Ways
The Look Both Ways quotes below are all either spoken by Fatima’s Mom or refer to Fatima’s Mom. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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4. How to Look (Both) Both Ways
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[…] but she left out the part about the woman in the pink pants because she knew if she told her mother, […] that would be the end of walking. That would be the end of a babysitterless life. Back to cheese-toast snack time and other coughy kids whining about what they want to watch on TV. And she didn’t want that because even though the first walk was rough, anything was worth trying again if it meant she could come home and be alone in her house, where she could microwave nuggets and pretend to be a flight attendant like her father.
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