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This Is A Story About Your Mother

Dusan Stankovic/E+/Getty ImagesThink of something you know about me. Something you know for sure.My mother wanted to be a librarian and in the version of the story that I thought I’d always known, she gave up that dream to become a parent. She was in fact still in school when she put that ambition out of mind – her own widowed mother did not have the resources to support it. Did my mother ever feel remorse about not having had the opportunity to do both? No, she said;pursuing a personal career goal while mothering was something she simply wouldn’t have thought to do in Aotearoa New Zealand at...