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My mom taught me these life lessons

05/09/14
My mom taught me these life lessons…
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Christy Turlington Burns
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My mom taught me to love words

05/09/14
My mom taught me to love words. We were poor when I was a kid, so we never had the latest toys.
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Alisa Valdes
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My Mom never, ever gives up.

05/09/14
My Mom never, ever gives up. In her gentle and cheerful way, she never gives up. Mom is 92 years old, she's had health and other challenges galore, and she never gives up. She is grounded in her faith in God. That faith has empowered her to face one obstacle after another with patience and grace...
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Enola Aird
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My mom taught me the ritual of the family dinner

05/09/14
My mom taught me the ritual of family dinner. Monday through Friday we sat down together as a family to eat and talk about our day. Dad came home, siblings in from riding our bikes, hands washed, table set, everyone at the table until dessert was over and the kitchen cleaned. Then you were excused...
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Laurie David
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Jumping In The Deep End

05/09/14
Jae, Meema, Love, Boid, Aunt Jae, Puzzle, Jane, Grandma Jae, and Mom. All of these names were used for one woman—a woman who loved to live life fully, to skinny dip in mountain lakes, to explore balsam wooded paths, vivid art, and ideas. Gauguin, Picasso, Cezanne, the free Smithsonian museums were...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
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My mother taught me to love books

05/09/14
My mother, Ricki Waldman, taught me to love books. In my house we were not athletes, we did not have hobbies. We read. Voraciously. Constantly. We even had periodic "reading suppers," in which we would all sit silently around the dinner table, each immersed in our own book, paying scant attention...
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Ayelet Waldman
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#ReachHigher: One of the Greatest Lessons I Learned From My Mom

05/09/14
One of the greatest lessons I learned from my mom was about the importance of education.
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Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States of America
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My Mother

05/09/14
My mother didn’t teach me just one thing. She taught me too many things to count, things which I can’t even articulate, things that wouldn’t make sense to anyone who isn’t me or my mother. But that is the beautiful thing about our mother-daughter relationship. I value this relationship more than...
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Monica Weeks
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A little lipstick and independence

05/09/14
My mother taught me so many things, it’s hard to choose which to write about. What always stands out for me was her fierce independence as a young woman. She told me she could do anything as well as the boys when she was a kid and she proved it to them often. She ran away from an abusive father to...
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Mary McDonough
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The Gift of Being a Mom

05/09/14
I’ve always known there was something special about my mom. Maybe it’s because of her infectiously positive outlook on life, or the way she gives of herself no matter how full her plate, or how her laughter comes from the inside in a way I’ve never seen before.
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Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers

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