"Admittedly, there is still anger and deep sadness that my mother's life was taken in such a blatant, cruel and horrific fashion, " said Sheila Gillespie-Hillsman, who wrote a statement on behalf of her family.

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Reagan's religious roots were deep, inculcated by his mother, an extremely devout, traditional Christian, and others who profoundly influenced him in Dixon, Illinois, in the 1920s.

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Lillian takes a deep breath to calm herself, and she smells her mother beside her, perspiration and green onion and the singed, nutty scent of buckwheat groats tossed from one side of the skillet to the other in a perfect, nonchalant brown arc.

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My own mother lost a child, and I recall the deep emotional trauma that followed.

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No warning, no thinking that this might be emotional for a mother or dad to get through just an eruption from deep within me where my body literally shook.

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There is unanimity, a thread of great hope and acceptance of the importance and contribution of a literate mother to the well-being and benefit accruing to her family, especially the deep interest and desire to have all their children educated.

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