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All my life but particularly when I was young, my mother would always say, "Jeffrey, do the right thing!"

I seldom did unless a cop or a nun or my mother was nearby and could grab me or slap me.

Especially my mother, who had fast hands and believed in "Spare the rod and spoil the child!"

I was far from spoiled because she had both me and my brother to keep on the straight and narrow.

And today, were my mother alive at 107, she would have done the whole world a great service if one of her sons had been Donald J. Trump.

Oh, she would have wiped the smirk off of his smart mouth.

She died at 99...