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Dear Mom: You Were My First Blessing

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Dear Mom, If life had gone the way I’d planned, I wouldn’t know much about Alzheimer’s disease. I would probably be organizing a party for your 60th birthday at Pappadeaux or Chuy’s instead of selling shirts and bracelets to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Association in your memory.  I would probably be naive and foolish,…

with my mom and husband

Mama, He’s Crazy: My Mother’s Wisdom About My Future Husband

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It means the world to me that my mother knew my husband before it was too late. I remember telling my mother about my feelings for my future husband, heartbroken about his feelings for someone else at the time, during my freshman year of college.  That conversation always make me think of one of my…