Karen Elizabeth Gordon

U.S. writer

All phone calls are obscene.

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pet name

[pet name] {n. phr.} A special or abbreviated name indicating affection. * /He never calls his wife her real name, "Elizabeth," but only such pet names as "honey," "honey bunch," […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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figure up

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