Every Seed Your Mother Sowed

StoryCorps

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

When Ileana Watson died, her daughter Sada was just about to become a mom herself. Three years later, Sada sat down with Ileana's best friend, Angela Morehead-Mugita, to learn more about her late-mother.

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0:00.0	I'm Dave Isay, founder of StoryCore, and this message comes from NPR sponsor Subaru and
0:05.5	the 2021 Subaru Forester featuring standard symmetrical all-wheel drive and award-winning
0:10.9	safety technology.
0:12.6	Welcome to the SUV for all you love.
0:15.0	Learn more at Subaru.com.
0:22.6	It's the StoryCore podcast from NPR.
0:24.4	I'm your host, Camila Cushani.
0:27.4	This season we've been bringing you short updates every other week from some of our
0:30.9	favorite participants who continue to show us that it's possible to move forward, even
0:35.4	after going through something really difficult.
0:46.3	In this episode, we're going to hear from Seda Jackson, who lost her mom, Alina Watson,
0:51.2	to breast cancer in 2016.
0:53.9	Not long after that, Seda became a mom herself.
0:56.3	When she came to StoryCore, she sat down with her mom's best friend, Angela Morehead,
1:00.8	Magida.
1:02.1	I just thought it'd be really cool to sit with one of her friends, like how often do you
1:06.0	get to do that to sit with your parents' friends and just ask questions and they don't
1:11.6	get to jump in and say, don't tell her that.
1:14.2	Don't tell her what I said.
1:15.6	I want to know more about my mom as a woman because I only knew her as a mom.
1:22.7	The part that most children don't see from their parents is the vulnerability.
1:30.3	I think for the both of us, we became vultz for each other.
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