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“And I realize momma really paid the price she nearly gave her life to raise me right.� In hearing those words by the late Tupac Shakur in his song “Keep Ya Head Up�, I had a startling revelation: My mother was somebody and I had been taking her for granted. Immediately after the hearing that song I processed every lyric and applied it to my life. At that very moment I realized how important my mother really was and I stopped taking her for granted. This song had changed me forever.

Growing up was not that easy for me. There was always lots of turmoil in the household. As a young child I thought my mother was suppose to do any and everything I wanted her to do when I wanted her to do it. My mother was suppose to fix everything that was wrong in my life and she didn’t, but not because she couldn’t. When I couldn’t get whatever I wanted I would lash out. I expected way too much from my mother. She wasn’t superhuman. There was thing s going on that were not her......

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