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My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.

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

Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

My mother always thought if her mother hadn't left her, she would have been happy. All the problems she had never would have happened.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

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