Becoming a mother makes you ...

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.
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 Charlotte Gray

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I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.
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 Charlotte Gray
Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.
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 Charlotte Gray
Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives
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 Charlotte Gray
In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians.
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 Charlotte Gray
A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.
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 Charlotte Gray