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Mothering the Mother

What I kept saying those first months was…"I just haven’t got it!" My husband kept asking me what "it" was and I couldn’t tell him. Then my mother decided to come for a visit…When she hugged and kissed me, I turned to my husband and said, "This is what it was! I needed some mothering myself."

-Eda LeShan, Conspiracy against Childhood

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