I feel like my mom had many lives and transformed into many people from decade to decade. My mom became a single mother after divorcing, lost some of her children through childbirth, murder, and health conditions, raised two Deaf children and made sure they were educated in American Sign Language and Deaf culture. Yet against the odds, my mother developed into a saintly, streetwise, strong Black Muslim woman who held her family down and prayed for them and cared for so many other people.
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