[Red Boots]

Message delivered to her children: A bunch of unknown Iraquis are much more important to me than you...after all, to you I'm just your mother, but to them, to them I can be a meaningless shield...and maybe get my name in the paper.

[happygrl]

Message delivered to her children

She'll be surprised when that message is cogitated some day by her children.

I expect they'll be "too busy" in her old age.