The following month, I opened my doors again to my mother after she had just left my father.
Before he got into the straight and I said to my mother, 'We've won the race.
One of my godmothers said to my mother, 'You've got to do something about this child.
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"I opted to give my children to my mother, not because I don't love them, " she says.
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During that time, to my mother's chagrin, my wardrobe consisted of sweaters with holes and old jeans.
In other words, I try to get other people to notice the things that are important to my mother.
This was a source of pleasure to my mother, although if she was depressed she would withdraw to her bedroom.
"I said to my mother the other day, 'You know what, Mum, I could never have kids, ' " Emin continues.
He was also a deadbeat who contributed nothing to my mother's care and stole money her grandmother had willed to her.
The seller maintained his commitment to my mother and my mother maintained her relationship with both the seller and the betrayer.
That was the best part of writing -- it was reading it back to my mother, making them sit and listen to my work.
Then there was the small matter of trying to explain to my mother's housekeeper over the phone how to find the website, the search terms to use.
No matter my educational successes (and, now with a PhD, there were many along the way) or sporting achievements, I was such a disappointment to my mother.
"I used to stand on the beach and I said to my mother, 'I wonder if anybody could swim over there, " Nyad recalled saying, while pointing to the Keys.
My friends, when I was growing up, my father was often at sea, and the job of raising my brother, sister and me would fall to my mother alone.
"That disclaimer is automatically attached even to emails that I send to judges, to opposing counsel, and to my mother, " said Mr. Reiner, whose practice focuses in part on anticounterfeiting and intellectual property.
Ms. TALBOT: They are - two are on the fence, and the other sister really wants to keep the material and if necessary have a neutral party go through and just pull all, for example, the sketches, anything that would be of value in relation to my mother's work.
Just being here I've met people that I never met before that have got some different story about things that relate to my mother on that day that I'd never heard before and then it triggers some other memory that maybe you hadn't thought of in years and years.
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In the waiting room as we checked into the hospital, his father sat next to my mother and I remember the image of him exactly: olive skin, broad face, and long shiny hair, his head held in his big hands as if it had cut loose from his body.
"I'm standing here in front of my mother and my daughter, and my whole life I wanted to make my mother proud, and now I want to make my daughter proud, " she said, holding back tears.
So when I was old enough to ask my mother to - if I could buy (unintelligible), and she said, I could if I make the money.
It may look like I was trying to avoid my mother and her home cooking by going to Journalism College as far away as possible - Carlisle to Portsmouth is a bit of a trek - but that couldn't be further from the truth.
When I came out to my own mother, at 40 years old, I was a parent, I had been married to a woman I loved for 20 years, I had a successful career, we owned two homes, and there wasn't a single person who would have guessed my secret or my struggle.
On Sunday morning, the postman came and there was this letter from the British passport control office in Berlin asking my father to send his and my mother's passport to have the visa entered.
Mr. RASHID: We sending back to our home to helping my mother, father and relative, neighbor, whatever they need money.
In fact, she got to name my mother, Dolores, because by the time my mother came along my immigrant grandparents, Sam and Molly, were running a dress shop and tailoring business in Washington Heights, Manhattan, near or on Dyckman Street.
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