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Eric Allin Cornell

"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."

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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"

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"She was a genius, my mother."

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"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."

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"If I were like your mother, I would be a woman."

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"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done."

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"Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before."

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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."

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"I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did."

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