Love Letter To Mom: Happy Mother's Day, Helen

ACROSS NEW YORK, NY — She's the one that loved you first, but mom is much more than that. She’s a friend, a teacher, a counselor, a shoulder to cry on — and maybe one of the toughest women you’ve ever met.

We asked Patch readers in more than 1,000 communities to tell us what their moms mean to them. Nearly 200 people responded, paying tribute not just to moms but sometimes to grandmas, sisters and daughters who deserve recognition for Mother’s Day 2021.

Here’s what Ernestine of Harlem had to say about mom Helen of Pender County, N.C. :

Hello and I wish I had a picture or memory of you. Wilbert told me I look like you