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Welcome to Kind World.

Welcome to Kind World. I'm Andrea Aswahay. The last couple of weeks we've been sharing some of our favorite classic kind world episodes with you on Fridays.

Today we've got another one for you but this time we're

adding something new to the story an update. Here's our 2014 story a second

mother to me.

I'm Michael Tamboni. I am 18 years old, and I'm from St. Louis, Missouri.

In the eighth grade, my mom passed away.

My friend's moms tell me that she liked to brag about me a lot.

When she passed away, I had to move in with my dad.

I love him to death, but he sometimes, he's kind of hard to talk to you just look at us and then

start like tearing up and say I can't believe this happened. I was not always comfortable

talking about it so I would kind of sit alone and just think about it by myself.

My name is Francis Schmitz. I am from St. Louis. Michael is a friend of my son Vincent. When you lose your mom and what was at the

end of his eighth grade year, you have to do a lot of growing up. Those are also the very

years that on one hand kids are always angry at their

parents and on the other hand they're constantly leaning on you and going to you.

They need you and Michael like like any other young man at that point in time needs his mom.

I went to an all boys Jesuit high school.

Every year my school would hold a mother-son mass and breakfast.

We would go there early, dress up really nice,

just go to a mass, and then right afterwards we'd all meet in the lunchroom for a breakfast.

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