"Has there lived a writer who claimed never to have been influenced in the smallest part, for good or ill, by their mother." — The Guardian Article, Writers and Their Mothers review – the legacy of maternal blessings

I would not be writing to you today if my mother did not give me a Pocahontas journal when I was seven or purchased my first Sweet Valley Kids Book (Lila's Birthday Bash) around the same time. My childhood wasn't filled with toys but of stories — the Berenstain Bears, teleseryes, and stories of my mother's own childhood.

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