Lessons From My Mother

My mother passed from this world last week at age 85, having suffered from Parkinson’s and dementia for too many years.  This was my eulogy, which I called Lessons From My Mother.

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When I think of who my mother was, I think of her as a woman much younger than I am now. I think of the time when I was on my late teens and she was around 40, when it was her mission to teach me everything she knew about being a good woman.

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