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What's The First Thing...

Jordan2 — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:35:54 GMT

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of your mom? For me it's how much I miss her, she was my best friend, and she loved me unconditionally.

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nana59 — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:38:36 GMT

my mom died when i was 30.....i'm 71....and after all these years....i still miss everything about her...

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threecees — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:44:59 GMT

Kindness.

My Mom is always willing to help people out, walk her neighbors dog,

picks up her friends in town mail from the post office and takes it

to her door, shares her newspaper with a neighbor who can't afford

to buy it.

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Lucky Charm — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:45:56 GMT

@Jordan2 wrote:
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of your mom? For me it's how much I miss her, she was my best friend, and she loved me unconditionally.

Right now it's my hands. They are freckling worse than hers. She never used sunscreen until about 10 years ago (and hardly enough) and I've been using it for 30 years. Her hands look younger than mine.

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QVCkitty1 — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:46:29 GMT

My mom was not only a great mother, but my best friend. We had such fun together, and I miss her every day.🌺

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suzyQ3 — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:51:46 GMT

Unfortunately, any good was eclipsed by the bad. And sadly, there was no movie-like ending in which the mother acknowledges the past. Still, every once in awhile I have a pang of some sort -- love? I don't know.

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SilleeMee — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:52:06 GMT

Flowers. My mom had the most beautiful flower garden. She always would bring me fresh-cut flowers from her garden and that always made me smile. I miss her.

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jannabelle1 — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:53:34 GMT

How much I miss her and hearing her voice. She is still in some of my dreams and it seems so real.

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golding76 — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:54:55 GMT

My instant thought is of her extreme generosity and welcoming embrace of all who came into her sphere. She preached equality and lived practicing the principle.

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Desertdi — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:01:14 GMT

I didn't meet her standards. She compared me unfavorably with other women.

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deepwaterdotter — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:01:29 GMT

Her beautiful singing voice.

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Queen of shop — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:04:45 GMT

@Jordan2 wrote:
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of your mom? For me it's how much I miss her, she was my best friend, and she loved me unconditionally.

same

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ECBG — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:06:03 GMT

The first thing that comes to mind is a smile, then sadness that never ended.

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dulwich — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:06:36 GMT

@Jordan2 Her beautiful smile, her two dimples and her Irish accent which I did not realize she had - the accent - until I spoke to her for the first time on the telephone and I was amazed that my Mum had an accent! So missed.

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Boomernichols — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:11:17 GMT

@Jordan2 We must be kindred spirits, my mom WAS my best friend. She was my protector, biggest critic and also my biggest fan! Sometimes I would be driving and get so tickled I would pull of the road because I was laughing so hard I was literally crying! Give my mom a kiss on the cheek God and tell her I love her and it is from me!!!

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Queen of shop — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:13:12 GMT

@suzyQ3 wrote:
Unfortunately, any good was eclipsed by the bad. And sadly, there was no movie-like ending in which the mother acknowledges the past. Still, every once in awhile I have a pang of some sort -- love? I don't know.

(((hug)))

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Queen of shop — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:15:22 GMT

@Desertdi wrote:
I didn't meet her standards. She compared me unfavorably with other women.

(((hug))) You meet my standards. I think you're great.

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Mom2Dogs — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:18:29 GMT

She was kind, loved God and her grandchildren. I was 36 when she died at 62 years old....miss her every day.

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arrabella — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:21:02 GMT

@deepwaterdotter wrote:
Her beautiful singing voice.

Mine Too!!!

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gidgetgh — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:30:31 GMT

How much she loved me and my sister and my dad.

She was my biggest fan and I miss her terribly and still grieve for her 10 1/2 years after her death. I miss her so.