manning up!

[Evan Morris]

Last night's season premiere of the TV show "Hoarders" (A&E) highlighted
a moment when a distraught daughter, in the course of an emotional
tirade, ordered her demented mother (in her 70s, I'd say) to "Man up!"
and start throwing stuff away.

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Evan Morris
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