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My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

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I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who lov...more

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Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those...more

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It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth t...more

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I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

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Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.