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I Don’t Want to be Like My Mother
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I grew up in a single parent home. My mother raised myself and my brother and sister all by herself. It wasn’t easy growing up in that situation. I remember as I grew older thinking to myself “I don’t want to be like my mother.” I didn’t want to struggle. I didn’t want to be tired all the time. I didn’t want to be a single parent. Little did I know that you can’t always choose how your life will turn out, no matter how hard you try and how hard you wish for it to be. If you were...