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Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:00 AM

Mom's the word

The woman shelved her movie-star dreams to change your putrid diapers. This Mother's Day, send her a sonnet.
By Garrison Keillor

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  • Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:49 AM

    Mom

    "Should be working" should be jumping off a bridge. Methinks Dr. Freud could then pay him/her a posthumous visit in the great beyond and salve whatever deep wound must fester daily in his/her daily life. A pity indeed.

    Why would someone want to take a lovely sentiment, and echoed by so many other contributors, and despoil it with venom? I shudder for the poor lot drawn by the mother of "should be working."

    —timhowe Read timhowe's other letters

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