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3 Mom’s Little Angel STORIES OF THE SPECIAL BOND BETWEEN MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS GREGORY E. LANG TO THE WOMEN IN MY LIFE— JILL, MEAGAN, AND LINLEY He that would the daughter win, must with the mother fi rst begin. —English Proverb - Contents - Epigraph iii Author’s Note viii Like Mother, Like Daughter 87 Praying for Mazol 95 Introduction 1 Just One Hour 99 Mom’s Shadow 7 Chocolate Promise 107 To See the World 11 A True Gift 113 A Perfect Wedding 15 Pretty Dresses 117 The Mothers’ Circle 21 The Sweetest Reunion 123 Birthday Surprise 25 Angels Whisper 129 Fraidy Cat 29 A Girl Scout Sacrifi ce 137 Momma Magic 37 A Dream Come True 141 A Matching Pair 43 Bonded for Life 149 Flintstone Feet 47 A Daughter’s Hero 153 Notes of Love 53 Letting Go 157 Answered Prayers 55 A Legacy of Letters 59 Epilogue 165 Reunion 65 Tell Me Your Stories 169 Special Breakfast 73 Acknowledgments 171 About the Author c redits c over c opyright About the Publisher 3 TO FROM TAPE A PHOTO OF YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONE HERE. Author’s Note - T his book is based on a collection of stories about mothers and daughters. Simply put, I could not have written it without the generous permission of daughters and moms to tell their personal and heartwarming stories. They also granted me permission to edit their stories for the sake of consistency in creating a book that would be enjoyable for all to read. Stories were sent to me by traditional mail and e-mail, collected through my website, or told to me in recorded interviews, both face-to- face and by telephone. As you might guess, the writing and storytelling styles I encountered varied considerably. Sometimes English was not the teller’s primary language, and in those cases editorial changes were all the more essential to create a brief but readable story for my readers. I revised all but a few of the written and recorded stories in order to get to the heart of the story with as much economy and emotion as I believed necessary to produce an engaging chapter. In every case, however, I stayed true to the original mother-daughter story, even sending many edited stories back to the storyteller for review and input. I hope that those who read their own stories in the following pages will be satisfi ed with how they are told here, woven together with other positive messages about mother-daughter relationships. I photographed family and friends to illustrate this book. No relationship between the models and the stories is implied by the placement of a photograph before or after a particular story. Finally, real names were not used in this book in order to respect the privacy of all the persons portrayed within each story. ix AUTHOR’S NOTE
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