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Christine Elizabeth Logan Goodrich - my mom

John McCain has nothing on me other than that is mother is still alive. But as I see it, we are both really proud of our mothers.
My mother was a jewel. She was a woman of much spunk and wit. She was clever and creative, wise and dear. She had an intelligence that belied her lack of education. Born in the early 1900's she had to quit school at a young age to help out at home. Her father passed away when she was a young girl and her mom, a fierce but caring German woman hung wallpaper to make ends meet. My mom worked in the factories as a young woman. When she married my dad and had children, she stayed home and kept house. We never had much but we always had warmth and love and plenty of mom's ingenuity.
My mother became a Girl Scout leader when we were of scouting age. I always think that it was her way of being able to use her creativity. She had so many great ideas and the girls just loved her. She continued as a leader for many years.
If she had been born in a different place in time in different economic conditions, with more opportunities for women she might have been a CEO or a lawyer or an educator or an author. But she was all that to us and more. She made so many people laugh. In her later years she became even more of a "card" and would write little essays and poems that people loved.
I miss her a lot. I know she is in Heaven. I just hope she knows how very proud I am now and then when I look in the mirror and I see her in my 56-year old face and I smile and say to myself "I have become my mother". And that is a very good thing.

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