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Looking back, I would not want to have been my mother. But I would want to be her friend.

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Because we all know we’re supposed to foster our kids’ independence, but sometimes it’s easier said than done. And now she can be part of your kids’, too.

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I woke up that morning giddy. Something big was happening in our family that day but for once it was not happening to me. I drove us to the urologist’s office, which happened to be in the same ...