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July 29, 2023 at 7:23 pm
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I’m not sure I even thought about this until now, but I liked her struggle between keeping up with who she was expected to be versus who she really was. This was echoed throughout her daughter and grandchildren in different ways, but I liked that it started with her in surprising ways.