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becare

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Becare (verb) means to look after someone or something, or to feel concern for them.

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To look after someone or something, or to feel concern for them.

"Some little patients in the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, in comparing their counselors with their parents, stated that parents love, but counselors "becare."" — Benjamin B. Wolman, Manual of child psychopathology (1971)

"Counselors becare you. They give you clothes and candy. Joan becares me, Marilyn loves me. My parents don't becare me, they're not counselors."" — Bruno Bettelheim, Love is not enough (1968)

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