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Mothers Day 2012

Dispatches from Down East: For All the Mothers-at-Heart

Lori Gard | Posted 07.11.2012 | Canada Living
Lori Gard

My "adoptive" mother was an elegant woman with immaculate nails and gorgeous ebony skin. Over the year I lived with Alice, our relationship became more than just tenant and landlady. She became, in essence, a surrogate mother to me and continued to be one over the years that followed.