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[quote=Anonymous]Take:
 
-Kindness
-Openess/ability to get to the core of an issue (she was everyone in the neighborhood's mom anytime they needed someone to talk to)
-sense of humor
-ambition in a helping/public service career and as an author
-intellectual curiosity that she encouraged in us
-unconditional love (the knowledge that there is absolutely nothing we could do to break it and a couple of us definitely pushed this)
-broke the cycle of alcoholism/abuse in her family with flying colors
-had many deep, meaningful lifelong friendships with people I still consider family
-made it clear that her greatest joy was her children

Leave:
-married a man that was terrible for her to get away from her abusive parents and put up with him for way too long although I learned what NOT to do in marriage
-while she was pretty good about this with her kids, she had great difficulty holding boundaries in the rest of her life and struggled to ever say no to ANYTHING. This lead to some pretty shitty situations at times. 
-is way too motivated by guilt[/quote]

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