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My beloved Mama.

I could hug her for days. She is my guardian angel, and my best friend.

Ever since my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, I have been scared to death about her health. As I type this, I am kinda tearing up because I am gonna lose her sooner than I should. For now, I will just enjoy her.

Not only has she survived breast cancer, but she has gotten through cervical and ovarian cancer. She has severe colitis, diabetes in the family, and just got foot surgery. She just keeps fighting through it. You would never know that she is sick if you saw her.

She is a typical Italian. Bright-eyed, stubborn, lushy, good at eating. She can also cook a mean plate of spaghetti.

My mom has always been there to listen to me. She always said, “You get your brains, and good looks from your father, but you get your heart from me”.

In the past four years, she has lived in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Washington, and now Virginia. I have only seen her about 10 times during that span, but I talk to her on the phone every day. When I finished college, she made me a scrapbook that I will cherish forever.

It kills me that she doesn’t understand the web like my dad does. She just got a 56k modem, and Flickr is blocked at her work, so it’s like impossible to share pictures with her. Hopefully she will get fiber in the new year.

In these photos, she is 49 years old. I think she looks pretty good for her age She turns 50 on May 12th, 2008.

My mom constantly reminds me that she went through 17 hours of labor on my birthday, but I don’t care. One day I will do 17 hours worth of housework for her.

I love my Mom, and I hope she gets to read this some day!