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My Mom Rocks (by April Margaret Cuenca)
May 10, 2009
“My mama always told me that ‘Life is like a box of chocolates.” Well, my mama made me watch the movie that said that “Life is like a box of chocolates.” My mama always had her own way of helping me learn things about life. She never forced me to do this and to do that. She just always told me what would be probably be good and I believed her. Minimal pressure to excel. And I love her for that.
As a kid, my mom always let me experience life as freely as it could be helped. I could decide when to eat, when to sleep, what I wanted to do, and who I wanted to be with. She rarely stood in the way and showed her support for as long as she could help it. You could probably say that my mom spoiled me with freedom. I would admit to it.
However, more than that, she taught me more about the possibilities that life could hold without telling me so. My mother always let me experience life in a way that few of my peers could even begin to fathom. My mother didn’t teach me about life by telling me that it was a box of chocolates, she showed me what life could offer early, and showed me what life without those gifts would be later on.
*the picture attached is of my mom and my newest baby brother, Zac. 
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