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ML: The act of looking after another person or thing.

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  • Marriage and Family finds that long-term caretaking duties puts further strain on adult parent-child relationships.
  • (I think the character with whom I had the strongest sense of caretaking is Lily, in Whiskey & Water.
  • Despite the commonly held belief that dogs and cats don't get along, this kind of caretaking has been seen before.
  • "It's a very authentic role for women to do that kind of caretaking and say, 'I am going to look after your interests'," says Walsh.
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