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Greater than Wonder Woman
by Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ

There's only one person in the world who's greater than wonder woman... and that's a mother.

She's soft, yet strong. She can bend, yet at the same time have the will of steel.

In The Most Beautiful Hands, I wrote about my mother. We aren't always the best of friends, but now that I'm older, the fights are lesser and we are closer.

When I look at her, I see a woman of great courage and fierce loyalty. How she found all her strength and energy to be the wonderful mother she has been and is to four children with different personalities has ceased to baffle me -- instead, I am now left awed.

Whenever I get the chance, I hold my mother's hands and feel them in all their roughness. And each time I do that, I feel blessed. Her hands are hands I would never tire of touching.

And now it's your turn. How do you know that your mother loves you?

Think about it; reminisce those times with your mother; recall it.

Then, write about your mother and cherish it because it's your memory.

Copyright © 2002 Shery Ma Belle Arrieta-Russ

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