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asks, and a mother has answers  Felix Carrol, Times Union
Published 5:51 pm, Thursday, May 10, 2012 Larger | Smaller Email
This Page 1 of 1  An archetypal mother raising children in the
1970s and 1980s, she stayed at home to raise four children. She
put dinner on the table. She tied our shoes. She bandaged our
wounds. She cleaned our faces with spit before school. She
eventually divorced when the children were grown. She watched
three of her four children develop serious medical problems. A
grandchild died from a heart defect when he was 2 years old.
She loves to love. She loves to laugh. She's my mother, and she
has answers:   Hard to say. A lot of extenuating circumstances.
I stayed home. There were people like my sister who worked and
who said I was lucky I could stay home and "watch TV all day." I
could've killed her. I wanted it all to be good, and it was hard
work. Nowadays, many of