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Mark Greenfield's avatar

One of your best columns ever.

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hokieduck's avatar

Thank you, John. Lovely.

I lost my mother on my thirtieth birthday. She was a strong, fierce woman before it was fashionable for a woman to be either strong or fierce. The Episcopal Church in my little Virginia town was filled to overflowing for her funeral service.

I have thought about her life and choices throughout the corresponding moments of my own life, and have taken sage counsel and deeper understanding of life's trials and triumphs (and ordinary moments) from thinking through what and how she handled her own at whatever juncture I was traversing. I always light a candle for her on important days, like Christmas and her birthday ... oddly, never on Mother's Day. You have inspired me to do so this Sunday. Thank you, John.

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