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Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

My mother always wanted to give back.

There's a part of me that never felt my mother abandoned me. I always felt that she did the right thing.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

I gave her life, I can take life away.

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'

This is my present, you know. My present from Mother.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.