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Senior year of high school. A long-distance friend in another state, a guy, asks me to come there and be his date for prom.

My mom, always up for a road trip, says sure, and we head to his town several hours away. She thinks it's cool and kind of hilarious that we're "crossing state lines for purposes of transporting a prom date."

As I'm leaving our hotel room in my prom dress, to go meet him in the lobby, I turn and ask her--being a Very Good Girl as a teen, and aware that we're in a town we don't know and she might worry a bit -- "What time do you want me back here by?"

She looked at me with that wry way she had and replied, "I've never set a curfew for you before this, and I'm not gonna start now. Go have a good time."

That was Mama. She trusted me, knew how to appreciate little things like a prom or a simple road trip, she was funny, she was loving, she was sometimes (I now realize) depressed and sometimes salty but always, always on my side. And she never did set a curfew for me, or judge any guy I ever dated, or any friend I ever had. Her trust made me want to be worthy of her trust in me. Miss her every day. [/quote]

I get a little weepy reading stories like this. This is the type of mom I wish I had, and the kind of mom I aspire to be. 
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