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When You Don’t Have a Hallmark Mother

As a young adult, I spent more time than most pondering the selection of Mother’s Day greetings at my local stationery store. I pored over the message inside each card to find something, how shall I say, accurate? I balked at the prose inside one that said, “Mom, you’ve always…
Jane Pollak
May 10, 2019