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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Erma Bombeck
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1927 to 1996; Wikidata Q455968, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455968 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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