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I love to wallow around in all your detail. Especially enjoyed the description of your mother's kitchen. What recall you have!

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This is such an incredible story, so beautifully told! Thank you for sharing it!

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Nothing speaks of love more Alice than sharing a hospital bed with one we cherish who is ill. There is no greater gesture of affection. How your mother must have felt!

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In this chapter, I feel a deeper revelation about the layers of 'mother land'. Thank you, Alice!

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Oh Alice. I’m sitting at the lake catching up after having a visit with my 91 year old mum. Maybe they were sisters - maybe we are all an enigma to a point. “He’s gonna kill you” - I heard this and thought, nobody loves us like our mothers.

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Your story, Alice, though uniquely yours,is a version of so many I have heard from that same era, your era. For many grandparents and parents who fled Europe, silence was their mantra. Thus, you write/speak for yourself in a way that I hope will touch many others.

With appreciation,

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Thanks Dorree. It's me who is appreciative.

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Lovely. A tone poem to motherhood and one particular mom, well-remembered.

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I began to read this with one eye on the clock because I was running late for an appointment. I will finish it later, I thought. But this chapter about your mother was so moving I had to finish it.

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I look forward to each instalment of your memoir as you piece together the puzzle that is your family history. It is both fascinating and at times heartbreaking. It’s always a joy to read anything you write.💗

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I loved hearing about your Mom, Alice, so pls tell us more. My Mother passed away unexpectedly 6 years ago and I so wish that I had asked her more questions about her young life. The early scandalous divorce (at that time) with my father and how she coped with 3 young children. Plus I should have asked so many more questions along the way. She would have confided in me but I’m the one who was busy with a family, working and craving quiet time. I really miss her.

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We feel the same. Thanks for reading. Means the world.

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Wonderful Alice - I am moved by your stories. They are well worth telling and you do a beautiful job of telling them. Your Mom would be proud.

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