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You don't say no to your mother as Jesus proved

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From: New Haven Register
Date: 20080511
Author:Joe Amarante

I love my mother, who cooked a meal for us recently and even hemmed my daughter's slacks for her. And I thought, "How great is it that she can still do that at her age?" So today I honor her and all mothers.

Some will spend Mother's Day remembering their loving mothers who are no longer with us. Most mothers form a connection with their children that grabs and holds the heart forever.

As William Makepeace Thackeray once said, "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children."

Sometimes that love takes on a blind, obsessive quality, as when mom insists her kid can do no wrong. ...

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