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Teen Ink Magazine, May 2003: Focus: Mothers



You're supposed to be the one
Who wipes away my tears ... Continue...


    I started to think - a mom. What a job. They don't even get minimum wage, yet their job is possibly the most challenging of all.
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    My mom and I have absolutely nothing in common. Nothing. People always say that becoming like your parents is unavoidable, but I am positive this will never happen to me.
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She was everything anyone could ask for. She was beautiful, radiant, smart and wise. She was also a teacher, caregiver, philosopher, mathematician and chef, just to name a few of her roles. Continue...


    "Girls," she said. She always called us that when we were together. "I have cancer."
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I have seen my mother change from year to year but, in many ways, she stays the same. Continue...


Chasing away the green monster
With large paws from my closets,
Teaching me to read
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For a full year I have been recalling moments like these when I took for granted my mother's helping hand, Continue...


    It wasn't the first wallet that had decided to take a stroll on its own, either.
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