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Who would you say is the most important person in your life? Oh, definitely. It would be my mother.

I think I had the greatest mom in the world. It's the StoryCorps podcast from

NPR, where we bring you stories from the largest collection of human voices ever recorded

to find the wisdom hidden in ordinary lives. And mother knows best, right? So this week,

it's all about the moms. My mother was the glue to our family, as I think mothers are. If I was to have the choice

to choose another mother, I would never choose anybody else but you. Rami, I love you to the moon and

back. And I love you too, to the moon and all the galaxies beyond. I'm Jasmine Morris, and on this

week's episode, stories all about motherhood,

about moms and the difficult choices they face along the way to do what's best for their kids.

The decisions made, the actions taken, and, a dime, and a laundromat.

Growing up, Amy Marshall loved her adoptive parents, but she always wondered where she came from.

So when she was in her late 40s with a family of her own, Amy finally

decided to find out. She wrote to the state of Kansas where she was born to request her birth

certificate. At StoryCorps, Amy told her daughter about the moment the envelope arrived. I opened it,

and the first thing I saw was mother's name, unknown, and father's name unknown. And then the

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