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I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose.

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.