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May 9, 2014

Always make time to play with the kids. (Or grandkids.) When the family is gathered, my dad often complains that my mom is wasting time "piddling around with the kids" rather than doing something he wants her to do. She usually ignores him, because she figured out long ago that kids grow up way too...

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Rysa Walker

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May 9, 2014

My mom always loved and accepted me as I was, and in doing so, she taught me to love and accept others as they are.

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Emily Saliers

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May 9, 2014

This Mother’s Day marks a milestone for me and my baby—my first (and so far only) child just turned one year old, and I have continued exclusively breastfeeding him for one whole year, in spite of the two fibromas in my right breast.

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To-wen Tseng

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May 9, 2014

My mom taught me these life lessons…

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Christy Turlington Burns

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May 9, 2014

Almost twenty five years ago, as a young woman at the beginning of my social change filmmaking career, I had an experience that pushed me to turn the camera on myself. In 1963, my mother was prescribed the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES), meant to prevent miscarriage and ensure a healthy baby. In...

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Judith Helfand

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May 9, 2014

My mom is my best friend. She gave me the confidence to believe I could do anything.

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Fran Drescher

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May 8, 2014

Mami has been gone for three years now. And every day, at least once a day, I am reminded of something she said, some lesson she passed on. Who's Your Family? The biggest lessons were from that last year. Where we spoke of family and friends and the definition of each. The fact that Mami had...

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Sili Recio

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May 8, 2014

In honor of Mother's Day this Sunday, here's a #TBT to my #momhero and me.

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Lauren Hipp

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May 8, 2014

When I was in elementary school, my mom (an artist) and I (decidedly not an artist) entered a recycled art contest being held in a local park.

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Susanna Birdsong

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May 8, 2014

Once upon a time in Seattle, a little girl went downtown with her mother and baby sister and had a grand adventure. They may have shopped at Frederick & Nelson’s. They could have sipped milkshakes in the Paul Bunyan Room. But the excitement meter started spinning like crazy when the car broke...

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