Heard in The Judges: _baby mama_ replaced by "euphemism"

[Wilson Gray]

Mid-twenties black defendant describes his erstwhile girlfriend:

"She's a cool _baby's mother_, your honor. [blah, blah] … my baby mama …"

Judge Mathis:

"Well, if she's your baby's [sic] mama …"

Defendant:

"… she *is* my good baby mama, uh, my, my, a good _baby's mother_ , judge."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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