Dallas Munkholm About Me Page at Helium

Celebrations & Holidays > Mother's Day & Father's Day Happy Mother's Day: A personal note to the woman who raised me ...: 8 of 9

I am writing this article to give thanks to my mother, to try to make sense of my mixed feelings about my mother. Over the last fifty years my feelings and ideas, my thoughts about her have changed. In some ways they have changed for the best and in others, probably not so good. Yet, in looking back there is a constant, she is always there. A little background here, I am an illegitimate child, born to an eighteen year old girl in a small religious town. I was born in nineteen fifty-six. So you can get, perhaps, some small inkling of what it would have been like for her. Today this would be...
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