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Motherhood
Is the Jewish Mother a Eastern character finding a home?
That folk tale about the mother offering letting her son take her heart, and when it falls asking her son if he's alright - I've heard it in four different languages and five different countries. The furthest east was in Punjab when I was in india, when my freinds granny told me it, The furthest west by a Chechen mother in London. The common ...
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DirectHex
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June 14, 2007