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Thank you for sharing such a personal and touching memory of your mother and grandmother; it serves as a beautiful reminder of what truly endures beyond the parade of life.

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This is beautiful! Love the twist...she was Quebecoise.

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As you know, in Quebec identity can be fraught.

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Thank you for the lovely post. We have just had Mothering Sunday in the UK (the equivalent of Mother's Day in the USA), and your grandmother following the parade to support her daughter is a lovely mother / daughter story.

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I don’t have the scrapbooks, but I too have this lovely memory of two women I loved the most!

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Your Mom was the prettiest!

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Awww

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Devastating to lose those scrapbooks— but then the memory and all the detail in this piece re-animate the past too. I can picture it all.

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That is a beautiful memory of what mothers do.

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