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Lilacs and Pussy Willows

Every spring, it was a big deal for us kids to hunt for
the first pussy-willows of the season and bring them
home to mom – an even bigger deal if you were the
“first” one to do so.

Later in life, it became a big deal to me to bring mom
her first lilacs of the season, and I would drive for
miles to find early blooming ones.

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four
pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she
never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan

“Just a bunch of wild field-flowers, did he give to her”
~ Heintje

God said, "You will simply call her, "Mom."

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