Dear Mom...aka Ma...aka Mum

Dear Ma,
Thank you for the world (sorry I interrupted your card game on Jan. 31, 1962.
Thank you for guiding me even when I thought I knew it all (you're such a good faker).
Thanks for cracking that whip to keep doing my best when I wanted to give up.
Thanks for letting me try on your lipstick and walk around in your heels.
Thank you for letting me fight with Robert and practice my boxing. Ok so you and dad grounded me a lot.
Thanks for being home when I came home from school. I know you eventually went back to work and made me a latchkey kid. SO WHAT?? Zadie was there.
Thank you for being at my races, especially if dad had Masonic mtgs, Legion mtgs, VFW mtgs.....etc
Mum....thank you for teaching me to love, be kind, give, and do the right thing. You let me fall but helped me back up. YOU are my hero. I love you.
Your Favorite Daughter (only true one),
Jill Amy ox
PS Oh and you let me use a trash mouth from time to time...lol.