That particular boyfriend and I only lasted six months, but I did not visit home for nearly two years until my mother and I agreed that unconditional love meant accepting anyone, of any race, who I chose to spend my life with.
My father left when I was two years old, leaving her -- my mother and my grandparents to raise me.
My mother really raised the two of us, as my parents got divorced.
My mother had a stroke two years ago and is now partially paralyzed.
But I remember when I was 11, I had never been to the mainland, and my grandmother and my mother and my sister, who at the time was two, decided we were going to take a big summer trip.
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Its consumerism at its finest, in fact im sure my mother in law would buy two.
The discipline instilled in me by my mother allowed me to obtain two masters degrees from leading universities and establish a challenging career for myself.
My mother was able to raise two kids by herself because she was also able to get grants and loans to work her way through school.
Growing up I lived with my mother, my father, two older siblings and my grandparents, and I can truly say that I had the best experiences in life.
My mother was able to raise two kids by herself while still going to college and getting an advanced degree because she was able to get grants and work-study while she was in school.
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My mother died when I was two, so he raised me and my two sisters on his own, paid the bills as a night watchman at the IBM plant in Poughkeepsie after years of playing jazz in New York City.
My wife, two days ago, talked to a mother whose first child was born with this condition and the second child was born perfectly normal because of the research done by our people together.
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"When I got pregnant after my marriage, my employers advised me to quit my job, " said Fumiko, a mother of two.
My mother was a proud public schoolteacher, as are my two brothers -- the kind of teachers whom students remember for the rest of their lives.
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But then I visited an orphanage begun by Mother Teresa, and two very sick little girls captured my heart.
By then I was a mother with two small children I needed to support and my passion was being able to keep them fed and clothed with a roof over their heads.
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We keep in mind that my 88 year old mother in law, Alice, has been a widow for two years now.
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So we flew over the ocean, and with my mother and my grandmother and my sister, who at the time was two, we traveled around the country.
Returning to England after the war, my mother remarried and started a family, which grew to include me and my two sisters.
My mother learned to cower, I learned to fight with him, and my sister, two years older and obviously smarter, did all she could to pass for perfect.
He left when I was two years old, and even though my sister and I were lucky enough to have a wonderful mother and caring grandparents to raise us, I felt his absence.
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