dsi1 wrote:
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>I used to make fruitcake with my mom. It was the only activity that we did together.
>These days I don't make fruitcake but I'm glad that I got to spend that time with
>my mom because it was our time exclusively.

That's very weird, are you certain that was your mother... I did more
activities with my mom than I can think of all at once... we cooked
many things together practically every day, we'd go out to eat
together, we went to movies together, we visited lots of museums,
zoos, and botanical gardens, and a lot more together, broadway shows,
concerts, even the planetarium. Are you saying you didn't watch TV
with your mom... who helped with your school homework? For as far
back as I can remember my mome read to me every night, she taught me
to read, by the time I was three years old I was reading at today's
high school level. In 1949 my mom bought me a complete 24 volume set
of Britannica, before I was ten years old I read every word cover to
cover, including the atlas.