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The Day I Found My Mother’s Voice: Travels With a (Genuinely Annoying but Hugely Entertaining) Mom
Look. Here’s the piece. Even Angelina Jolie is going to embarrass her kids. That’s because it’s her job.
Just as it’s her kids’ jobs to be hugely embarrassed by their megawatt star mother. You can be Brad Pitt and still be a total loser the in the eyes of your kids.
My mother, who happened to be pretty facile with six different languages, damned smart, very pretty and hugely funny, had the immensely annoying habit of breaking into song in public.
OH MOM.
Cringe. Your mother could be bloody Adele and the same thing would happen. Because it’s YOUR mom and well, MOM. PLEASE.
My mother, who had a flair for the dramatic, would swirl into my pre-adolescent bedroom and rip the covers off my cowering body on a school morning, singing at the top of her lungs
OHWHATABEAUTIFULMORNING!!!!
I was mortified.
REALLY?????
Is there no way to trade this in on a better model?