Loving a Child Can Be Such Hard Work but Some Mothers Do Succeed

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I was not my mother’s favorite child. We had no mutual interests. We did not understand each other until I was an adult, but I knew we loved each other. Thankfully, I kept her values of faith, loyalty, hard work, honesty, and dependability.

My mother taught me something else by her example. I still recall the whiteness of the embroidered napkin on the…