"He would take two bites and stop," his mother recalls.

"We wanted to put that whole experience behind us and start fresh when our little boy finally came home," recalled his mother, Phyllis.

"It was just public knowledge," my mother recalled 55 years later.

Neither mother nor daughter could recall giving or getting advice about boys.

"All he did was sit with her on the bus," his mother recalled.

"I was surprised and more than a little scared," his mother recalled.

"She told them that they were not acting like men," his mother recalled.

On the night she died, Martha left home about 7 o'clock with some friends, her mother recalled.

His mother recalls: "I asked him to look at me, and he would not.

One mother recalls that her son, now almost 3 years old, had a tough time with a difficult teacher at his day care.