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Mom Says It Best: ‘You Were Born To Break Barriers’
Patch readers are recalling the best advice their mothers ever gave them in our extended celebration of Mother's Day 2021.
ACROSS AMERICA — Melissa DeBlock’s mother taught her it was perfectly fine for her to stand out from what others might consider “normal.”
The best advice the Hopatcong, New Jersey, woman ever got from her mom?
“God made you different, and that’s okay because you were born to break barriers and disprove any and everyone along the way.”
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A Hopatcong-Sparta Patch reader, she and many others are 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 through Mother’s Day — Sunday, May 9 — 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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