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I never felt like I had a mother.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.

I've never been particularly maternal.

I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

My mom is a typical mother.