Gams grabbed my face and kissed both cheeks. “You cannot mess this up, Suga Pie. When I became a mother, I was nervous and scared, too. The mistakes you do make will mold that child. No parent is perfect, and I don’t care what they say. The mistakes of my own mother molded me into the mother I am today, and so forth. Mina is a good mother, the best kind of mother to her boys. The mistakes Jean has made will only mold you into a better mother, not saying Jean isn’t a good mother, but you will learn from her mistakes. The only gift we can give our children is the gift of learning from our
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