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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.

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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

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That means you're my kid," I explained, "and I'm your mother, and nobody can say it isn't so.

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Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.

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It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many yea...more

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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity,...more

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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

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But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love b...more