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BEAUTY MARKS: A MOTHER’S DAY THREAD

I have a mole above my lip below my nose. When I was young, grade school young, I came home from school one day crying. A little boy had made fun of my mole at recess. I told my mother I wanted her to take me to the doctor and have him remove it.
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✨Witchy Woman✨
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After a pause and a thoughtful look on her face, my mother sat me down and showed me pictures of Marilyn Monroe and Cindy Crawford. She took me in her room and showed me her make up pencils and explained how women use them to draw on fake moles bc they wish they had one.
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Bc moles were beautiful and sexy. They were desirable, particularly one like mine.
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My mother then went on to explain how these “beauty marks” are genetic & hereditary. Both she and my father had many all over their bodies and therefore my sister and I both had them as well.
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Then my mother suggested we have a contest to see who had the most. “Loser has to buy us ice cream!" she teased.
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Armed each with a notepad and a pencil we went into the bathroom together and began taking off clothes and documenting our moles and other birth marks. Of course, she let me win bc what second grader has money to buy ice cream?
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The point is by the end I wasn’t crying, I was licking my cone and content with my body once more. All ideas of physically changing my body to accommodate other people’s idea of beauty were gone.
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That’s my mother. She always made sure I knew I was fine just the way I was. That no matter what anyone else ever said, I was never “less than.” That I was beautiful in my own right. I think this may be one of my favorite memories of just her and me from my childhood.
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Mostly I remember how excited I felt in the bathroom counting. How happy I felt afterwards when I had been SO upset and crying. I feel sorry for other people for not getting a mom like mine.
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And I feel very grateful for being blessed with the best example of motherhood from the moment I entered this life.
#MothersDay
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Jeramy Neugin
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🫂🫂🫂🫂
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so weird - I can't see?
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Mister Midnight
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Your mom is a great lady, WW. Thank you for sharing your memory.
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Thank you!
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Renee Tang
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❤️ This is such a beautiful story of you and your mom. Thank you for sharing. 💐
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✨Witchy Woman✨
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it's just one of my favorite memories 🤗
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