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... commemorative volume |
for Mom:
When I think of you, Mom, I think of your great spirit, your flair and your sense of perfection. Remember how you always said, “If you’re going to do something, you might as well do it right”? I do. It’s become something of a mantra for me.
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You’ve done many things right, Mom, but nothing more right than the huge doses of love you gave me, sweeping away all sorts of debris. And then there's your style. I combing the basement closet for those wonderful, full, romantic skirts you used to wear in the 1940s and 50s. Though I was never as thin as you were, I loved the feel of them when I wore them—Bohemian, old-fashioned, like a girl in a song. Yes, you certainly have style. |
| I don’t think I’ll ever forget that you came with me to Washington for a peace march. I was very proud of that, though I was probably miffed at the time because it meant that I couldn’t go on the bus with my friends. But I knew that I had a mother who cared enough for peace to go to a demonstration. I still am proud to think that you would send yourself into that fray, with the scraggly group that demonstrators always are. |
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