"The basic problem is that your company's security depends on my mother, " he says.

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"We all hear that they need the beds in the hospital and my mother really doesn't want to be where she is, " he added.

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"Maybe he thinks the best way to get to me is to get to the love of my life, which is my mother, " Holland said.

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While my husband used to encourage my stepdaughter to wish me a Happy Mother's Day, she is an adult, and he can't control her actions.

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