Content: memory

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This Memoir is about a mother (my mother) who used her hands to burn coals, iron people's clothes and whatever else it took to take care of her children while they were growing up. The feedback I require is the reader's opinion of my work and also constructive criticism of how I can better improve my writing.

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I'm trying to capture a memory, a feeling. What needs smoothing?

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To Stijn, a muse whose inspiration mirrored love's pure purpose: to arrive at the most propituous time, and leave when your blessing has been bestowed.

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Walking on my way to lunch one sunny day, I look down at my feet and suffer an experience that leaves me filled with glorious joy and wrenching pain and realize I have an amazingly ability I'd suppressed all these years, because of Ma...

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Remembering a happy moment in the past.

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On letting go...

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My happiest memories are from when I was young and still listening to bubblegum pop music. My brother was content with hanging with the youngsters like me, and I had 8,000 best friends. Recalling some of the happiest times in my life, I came up with a memory poem that brings back a flood of positive emotion.

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While teaching fourth graders to sing a folksong from China (in English) she suddenly remembers she heard it once in Chinese. She teaches them that version.

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