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There are days when I miss my mother so much, it aches. Grief is a slow moving sickness and there is not drug to \u201cfix\u201d it. When it comes to grief, you have to just work your way through it as best you can.<\/p>\n

Mothers, in particular, are hard to lose. This old song isn\u2019t about mothers, but it describes what they are to most of us really well. Your parents are the people who are always on your side and who never stop loving you, no matter what you do. Nothing can replace them.<\/p>\n

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