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Private First Class Elmo C. Hacketts, Jr.
Janice Kroner, whom everyone calls “Mom,” is Kroner’s wife. In the same way that Kroner acts in a fatherly way toward all of his employees, Mom treats everyone as if they’re her children (as made clear by her nickname). She especially likes when people tell her their problems, listening as if she is, of course, their mother.
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Mom (Janice Kroner) Character Timeline in Player Piano
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Chapter 12
...it always does. Kroner ushers Paul and Anita inside while his wife, whom everyone calls “Mom,” encourages them to tell her everything about their lives. Then, after a respectable amount of...
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