[BJ1]

My brother and I were raised by a single mother.My father died when we were 5 and 2 and my mother never re-married.There was very little money.

What about people like us?

 

Interesting is the fact that widows are the only group of single mothers to raise their kids as well as a two-parent family.  There must be something powerful about the memory of the father and the fact that the father's side of the family is not estranged from the mother. 

 

[Mears]

“There must be something powerful about the memory of the father and the fact that the father’s side of the family is not estranged from the mother. “

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My father’s family was wonderful to us. My mother considered them her parents(her parents were in Canada).

I have very fond memories of my paternal grandparents,aunts,and uncles.

Thanks for reminding me of that. They’ve all been gone for many years.

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