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Talking About my Mother’s Influence on Mother’s Day 2024! 5-12-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Alright, well, it's Mother's Day,
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  and I hope all the moms out there have had a beautiful day. Hope
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  that you've honored your mom the right way and uh honored her fully. I
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  hope it's been a beautiful Mother's Day. Also, I am intrigued that they've
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  also included the term mother like figures as well. So anybody who's been as
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  nurturing and as motherly, kudos to you. Also, Now, why am
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  I doing this podcast almost every day and having fun with it and enjoying it?
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  Well, I gotta tell you it's cause I'm my mom. Yeah.
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  My dad had me at George Simon or suite, have me at different things
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  over the years. But my mom at the age of five, when I
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  was five years old Renumber now she's a journalism guru. She was a journalist
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  for the Brooklyn Paper and other local outlets, daily News. We used to
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  go to the Daily News building and all that fun stuff. So at five
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  years old, when I really want to play the game of baseball and other
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  sports but really maybe couldn't keep up with the bigger kids, I guess able
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  body kids, if you will, Mom said, why don't you go into
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  broadcasting. That was when I was five years old, and here I am,
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  age thirty two with a podcast that continues to grow. We continue to
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  get downloads, we continue to get great guests and people partnering up with us
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  through popmatch and whatnot. And I love it. I absolutely love it.
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  But I'm on the mic today because my mom, when I was at the
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  age of five, had the best advice, which was going to the media,
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  going to broadcasting. Call the games. You know, when I started
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  that on my little Sega genesis, I was doing games at as I was
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  playing the hockey games, I call the play the action going up the ice,
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  down the ice on my Sega genesis, calling out the numbers. All
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  right, so and so and so and so shoot score, you know.
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  And I think that that advice from my mom, who by the way,
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  is kicking ass in her college career. Maybe we'll get to talk about that
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  and you'll see it this Friday. We'll see. But my mom not only
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  has given me the best advice every time, but but she's also car her
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  own path out in life through thick and thin. And let me tell you
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  that I am so proud that she was continuing to be her own person while
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  being a mom. She went out there and did events in journalism. She
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  went out there and worked her butt off at different jobs over the years.
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  Yes, to support my needs as someone with special needs, if you will,
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  growing up, but also to advance her own career. She has continually
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  carved out her own path while being a mom, and that is really with
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  the challenges you know that I'm sure she faced for a minute one of motherhood
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  on October twenty, nineteen ninety one, that is really honorable and something to
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  be proud of as her son, that she was able to balance what we
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  were going through as a family with making sure those columns were posted, or
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  those blogs, or those galleries right with belief in it were posted. She
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  really, what did I write today on Facebook? I had it kind of
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  written out and I'll share it with you, because what she's accomplished in thirty
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  and a half years as a mom and still accomplishing so much wouldn't make any
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  son or daughter smile. Makes me smile. She's continually worked on getting her
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  master's degree caught in public history. Even through the loss of my dad through
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  some health stuff, she is continuing to master her own life and that's something
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  to look up to in my own world when I may not be totally healthy
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  all the time. But that being said five years old on the apartment rugs
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  in East forty fourth, she said, just go into media. And boy,
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  when she gave me that license to talk, I haven't shut up since.
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  Literally have not shut up since. And I think that is worth something
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  to podcast about. And from calling games on my TV screen to interviewing those
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  who actually call the game like Bob Wolf and Kenny Albert and getting knows all
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  these people in the sports media world now the NR Hour, there's no coincidence
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  that my mom set a trajectory for my media path and I want to thank
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  her for that on this podcast on Mother's Day twenty twenty four by giving me
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  that simple advice, I'm not trying to play the game, well why not
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  call the game? And I've been talking and calling and podcasting and going on
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  radio and all that fun stuff ever since. And we can all have my
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  mom to thank for that. And I want to thank her for always taking
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  care of my needs, my care and never not being there even when she's
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  not been as healthy or undergoing a recovery from different searcheries. I don't want
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  to thank her for involving my stepdad Vic, who created the mantle, and
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  I love you, Pops soap. I say, Vic created the mantle of
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  stable fatherhood in my world. And I am so grateful my mom and him
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  married. I'm grateful that she brought him into our world and that was yet
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  another life changing decision she made that made everything almost seamless. Even through my
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  health crisis. The emotional support made everything seamless. I could be sorry to
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  say this, having a hot dog stuck at whatever age, but I always
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  got through it because they were so calm about it. Yeah, maybe a
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  little freaked out, but ultimately it was that calming when we got into the
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  emmert into the operating room that she had that I'll never forget as I get
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  older in my own years. Here. By the way, my mom also
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  would be noticed. I noticed her voice as soon as she's walked into any
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  place, any room, whether it be a Viscardi or any place we were
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  at. I always knew my mom was in the same room because her voice
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  resonated, and it'll always resonate on this and every Mother's day. So I
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  hope tonight you take your mom's advice, whatever it might be, whatever situation
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  you're dealing with. I pray you've had as a supportive mom as I've been
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  fortunate to have, and that you had a really blessed day, and that
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  never not listen to mom. Mother's instinct is real, and I know in
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  my community, the mothers of our community, the instinct they had is why
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  many of us thankfully are still here today. And the likes of Max Gold's
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  mom Lynn gave him the best life he could have for as long as he
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  was meant to be here. Same goes with Dono Mohan and you know Michelle's
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  mom, Michelle Mohan's mom, They and Hillary Bernstein's mom and Barbara, they
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  all fought for their kid and made sure they were here for as long as
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  they possibly could, for as long as I guess you say God needed them
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  here, powering through their disability and inspiring others. You know, Michelle Mohan
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  had this minochondrial disease fundraiser that benefited foundations supporting kids with minochondrial disease. She
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  made an impact. Hillary was a big part of our core even while she
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  was at Blythedale or any rehabit from soldiery after surgery. That's because her mom
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  made sure she would be involved even from afar. And what can we say
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  about Max? Okay, Max and his mom were always there for everyone in
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  the class they were. She was always present, always making sure Max was
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  taking care of and gave him the best thirty two years of life thirty one
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  and a half. Actually, and you know, we miss I don't know
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  if I should say it. We miss Matt lin Blad's mom who did pass
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  away, Colleen Lindblad, was a nurse and also an incredible mom to both
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  Matt and Katie. And of course there's ADDIE's mom, Gloria, who continues
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  to be by ADDIE's side as she's can ask in DC. And that's also
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  because even as well all of us got older. I have to believe as
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  much as our parents fight for us, we listen to them. That's why
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  we're able to be here. That's why I'm able to be behind the mic
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  for another Mother's Day because I've listened to my mom's advice on ways to stay
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  here another year, to keep going, to keep living and living as best
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  I can and as healthily as I can. So listen to your mom's advice.
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  Your mother's instinct is never wrong. And I think of the woman that
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  birthed my mom, my grandmother, Didi Shirley. It's amazing to me that
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  one woman who had three kids, my mom, my Ricky, and my
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  Nikki, created this incredible family of twelve grandchildren, right, and dozens of
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  great grandkids who will probably go on to create more kids and expand our family,
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  whether it be the Rosenbergs, the Fisks, and maybe one day I'll
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  be fortunate enough to expand my own family tree. I don't know about that
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  yet, not rushing into it, but maybe. But I'm always amazed at
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  TCHIRLEI Brockway and not only lived to one hundred, but what she did in
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  one hundred years on this earth. Her legacy is felt today this Mother's Date,
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  every Mother's Day by the three women that she created and raised, and
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  all also the offspring of those women who continue to tell the story of Shirley
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  Brockway's life and legacy in the impact she had as a Senior Citizen's Center director,
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  as a mother, as a grandmother, a great grandmother, and I
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  will proudly continue to tell the story of my grandmother Shirley Brockway, because one
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  hundred years is just the tip of the iceberg. It's what she made of
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  those hundred years that matter the most. It's what's my mom has done in
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  thirty two and a half years as a mom and before that as a journalist
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  that continue to throw flow through my veins, my writing, my journalistic instincts,
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  my need to be on the scene, that comes from my mom,
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  who was a beat reporter, who was out on the street reporting different things
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  happening in different areas of the city for different newspapers. That instinct, I
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  think comes from my mom, and I am thankful I inherited that, And
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  I'm thankful that my mom continues to be the amazing woman. She continues to
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  accomplish so much and doesn't let anything stop her anything. And that's a lot
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  to be proud of this Mother's Day. And yes, for keeping me alive
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  for three thirty two and a half years, I do feel like the baton
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  is being passed on to me to continue to staying alive. And even in
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  moments where I feel kind of down or whatever, I think the efforts of
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  my parents to keep me here and that gets me going, that fires me
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  up, That motivates me. And I think the best Mother's Day present we
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  can give our moms is that to show we're growing, We're going beyond where
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  we were a year ago and expanding, whether it be expanding roles is at
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  work or expanding roles when new job opportunities, We're always expanding. That is
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  the greatest gift we can give our parents, especially our mom, because our
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  mom is our foundation, our base or where we started and where we can
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  learn from, where we do learn from. And I think I am thankful
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  to have this stable home that my mom created, that my stepdad helped build
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  even more after nine and I'll always be thankful for that stability and for that
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  love and for that care and that drive. And I guess it's salvage just
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  said that drive to keep me alive, but that drive to keep me alive.
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  Yes, So I started to talking about the advice she gave me,
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  But there's tons of other advice along the way that I'm learning to intake and
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  utilize to the best I can each and every day. Love you, mom,
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  and I'm proud to be your son. On Mother's Day twenty twenty four
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  and forever, really hope you've enjoyed this Mother's Day, and thank you to
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  you and all the moms out there for shaping us into who we've become today.
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  And I want to end with this quote that I saw. It's from
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  anonymous, because I don't know where it came from, but I'll just tell
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  you, train up a child in the way he should go, even when
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  he was old. When he is old, he will not depart from it.
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  And it's true. Our mom's always known the direction to go, and
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  no matter where this path and life takes me, I continue to lean on
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  mom and always will. And yeah, she's on the money with her advice
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  and I'm better for it. Love you, Mom. Happy Mother's Day,
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  twenty twenty four.