Aunt Bertha
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Mamma (Tena Fitzgerald)
Quote 1
Aunt Bertha shook her head. "I tell you, Tena, that boy could talk his way around anything."
"He gets it from his father," Mamma said as if she was proud of Tom instead of angry with him for marching ten kids across her clean kitchen floor. (1.51-52)
Tom can't be an easy kid to parent, so Mamma has to take the good with the infuriating, and the good is that Tom is going to be okay in life because he has the gift of gab.