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by Laurie Frankel

There are two kinds of people in this world. People who can expect to, strive to, feel entitled to be happy. And people who cannot.

It’s that no one on earth could ever do it as thoroughly and thoughtfully and devotedly as Nora. Mother love is a powerful force. She is so essentially a part of me—like a limb, an organ—that maybe without her, I will simply cease to be.