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  • Disciples in radio silence

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    I have follower. Another friend has decided to cut her mother out of her life in order to preserve her sanity. “I’m on day ten. I have some guilt about it, but I haven’t felt this good in a long time,” she confessed. In order to avoid a relapse, I reminded her that bad mothers…

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  • All I want for Christmas is a Jewish mother

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    I grew up thinking I had to be adopted. I could not really be my mother’s daughter. That dream was dashed when I began to realize I had some of her physical features. Then, when divorce became very popular in the 1970’s, I prayed each night that my father would find a new mother for…

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