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Second Mom · Vinnie Penn Poemcast

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  Speaker 1: When I was a teenager, I had a second mother.
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  Speaker 1: I had a few, really, but this one was like
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  Speaker 1: no other. We'd Christmas shop together, she'd called me in
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  Speaker 1: sick to work. She was only ever blinding light where
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  Speaker 1: the shadows always lurk. I liked when she lived within
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  Speaker 1: walking distance, even later in life. I have no idea why,
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  Speaker 1: but it's true, this mother, angel, Godsend wife. I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm far at the back of the line. She was
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  Speaker 1: loved by everyone. She had herself three daughters, but I
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  Speaker 1: always considered myself a son.