Mom,
I am truly, truly sorry that the anti-Mominater scared you...especially on YOUR day. (In all honesty, I am ALWAYS scared to death by Joan Crawford! Everything about her creeps me out...that's why I went with Faye PORTRAYING her. Mommie Dearest herself is just too traumatizing!)
Sincerely though, I don't have a photo of my own mom scanned so I couldn't upload one. If I could have, I would have because she was a most amazing woman...
just like you. (I figured "If I can't upload a photo of the woman I think was the BEST mother, I'll find one who was the WORST mother as a distinct contrast!")
I didn't realize you were of the "Catholic" persuasion. I survived 18 years of Catholic education myself...and people tell me they're shocked by that because I don't seem "screwed up" enough!
So, I will honor you with a picture of a woman--and a mother--who, as all of us Catholics know, was bodily raised into heaven and has equal status with the Big J...even though in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church the women (i.e., "nuns") washed the floors of the rectory while the men (i.e., priests) performed the ritual of transubstantiation before adoring audiences and then got smashed on Chivas Regal.
Warmest wishes, Miss Mominator.
"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"
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