This is a holiday for honoring mothers around the world. It will be a day of celebration, a day filled with happy memories for those of us whose mothers have passed on but filled, for some, a day with just a hint of loneliness. Our daughter is in Atlanta, and as she’s coming home in couple of weeks for her godson’s graduation from high school, so making the trip now didn’t make sense. But we’ll be communicating by phone throughout the day. Some families aren’t quite that lucky. It is also a painful one in our family. My wife’s sister passed in January, so this is our nephew’s first without . . . . It will be a day of coping. Celebrating with his wife and children but also a feeling a mix of emotions.
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