One of the " amanojaku's " best known appearances is in the fairytale, in which a girl miraculously born from a melon is doted upon by an elderly couple.
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She attributes this partly to the fact that she was the oldest of three children, but suspects another factor was the way she was doted upon as a child.
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She had divorced his natural father, Newton McPherson, after he struck her, and for the first few years of Gingrich's life he was doted upon by his mother and grandmother.
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Although Dahmer was doted upon as an infant and toddler by both parents, his mother was known to be tense, greedy for attention, and argumentative with both her husband and her neighbors.
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Hiralal discovers that Manisha is in fact Arun's wife and Rinku is their blood-child and begins to secretly dote upon Manisha all while Kajaal criticises the relationship that the " employer and servant " shared.
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The official enforcement of the One-Child Policy has created a generation of " Little Emperors " doted upon by their parents, made more so by the development of a Western-style colonial days of the late 19th century.
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Because often the grandparents, particularly grandfathers, had a minimal role in the upbringing of their own children, they took an active interest in the upbringing of their grandchildren, and are noted for doting upon them beyond reason.
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Walker's youngest daughter, the resourcefully adept, blind Ivy ( a terrific debut by Bryce Dallas Howard, director Ron Howard's daughter ), dotes upon her friend Lucius Hunt ( Joaquin Phoenix ), the quiet, kind son of elder Alice Hunt ( Sigourney Weaver ).
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Whether mainland visitors arrive from Boston, the stronghold of scrod and bluefish, or from Florida, which dotes upon pompano and grouper, or from California, where sand dabs and petrale sole are mainstays, they find themselves in a whole new world, piscatorially speaking, when they hit Hawaii.
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He remained through his long public career a Southern Unionist, and a good type of the growing class of statesman devoted to slave interests who loved the Union as it was and doted upon its compromises . | from James Schouler, " History of the United States ."
