My mother: Ordinary woman who lived extraordinary life
Last updated 5/13/2023 at 11:36am
She was only 18 when rheumatic fever damaged her heart.
The doctors said she’d be lucky to live into her 40s — that she was no longer strong enough to bear children.
Lucky for my five sisters and me, she ignored them.
When we were babies in he...
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