"Mary Ann knocked on my door and told me my mom was on the phone, " Than says.
When I returned, Dixie cup in hand, my mom was sitting next to my sister on the sofa.
When I was 22, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, and my life has been fundamentally altered since then.
Leslie is a single mom -- just like my mom was a single mom -- trying to put her daughter through college.
When my Mom was in the hospital with the last stroke, which left her without the ability to speak, I visited her.
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My question is, my mom was diagnosed with diabetes when I was five, and what are you going to do to help childhood obesity and diabetes?
By the time she died suddenly of pancreatic cancer three years ago at the age of 72, my mom was teaching the children of former students, many of whom had stayed in touch.
I've said in this campaign many more times than I know the media, who has followed it, wanted me to say it, that my dad was a milk truck driver and my mom was a secretary.
One of the things that I learned from my mom was -- you can't replace a mother who loves you and instills you with a sense of purpose and occasionally gets on you when you're not doing your homework.
Religion and maktoob were comforts -- the notion of divine authorship (and its obvious extension, ultimate justice) elastic enough to accommodate even inflexible facts like the Holocaust and that my mom was both good and burdened with a vascular disease.
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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And I think about my mom -- a single mom, because my dad left when I was a baby.
What does it mean that my mom died when she was only 46 and I was only 21?
Mr. FINE: I think about my mom, and I was raised in a household of four women in their different age ranges.
Perhaps it was my mom's retort to my dad's obsession with playing the numbers that helped me understand the power of numbers.
You know, it's just, that was my mom's vibe, and so I can't remember exactly how the idea came up to do it.
And maybe he captivated my attention because my mom explained that this was our senator and that he was upholding what our government was all about.
Ms. STATON: Yeah, my dad used to come in drunk and he was abusive to my mom.
"I was telling my mom I might hang them on the wall, " she said.
Some examples of the things children reported were: "Gave my mom a hug when she was stressed by her job", "gave someone some of my lunch, " and "vacuumed the floor".
So, you know, my mom said that when I was born in India, they didn't have a bed for me so I slept in a suitcase with the lid propped open.
And in my cache of childhood memories, I can honestly say the times my mom looked the most stressed or dejected was when her mother-in-law (my beloved Nanny) would come over and immediately begin picking up around the house.
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