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Mom Says It Best: 3 Pillars For A Successful Life
Patch readers are dishing out the best advice their mothers ever gave them in our extended Mother's Day 2021 celebration.

ACROSS AMERICA — Heather Dean’s mother is full of one-liners.
“Get a college degree.”
“Don’t loan or borrow money from friends.”
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“Pay off your mortgage.”
As guiding principles, these are pillars for a successful life.
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“There were a few more,” the Fairfield, Connecticut, woman said in a Mother’s Day tribute to her mom. “
Dean is among Patch readers sharing the best advice they ever got from their moms in our extended celebration of Mother’s Day. Come back to Across America Patch every day for more of these morsels of wisdom we can relate to and smile about as we think of our own moms.
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