Rachel Abrams

That's okay.

There wasn't a shroud with pockets big enough.

Hello, my name is Danielle and I live in Alamo, California.

My mom is this tiny, fiery, extremely loving little Sicilian woman.

To know her is to be loved by her and protected by her, but

If you do something she thinks is not right, you will know it.

This is important context for her mantra that has always stuck with me, which is just because someone throws you a football doesn't mean you have to catch it.

And what she means by that is that all through our lives, people will give you feedback or criticism or they'll make you feel bad about something.

And you can just say, thank you for the feedback and just not take it in because it wasn't yours.

Hi, my name is Kelsey and I grew up in Bloomington, Indiana.

My mom always used to say, some things just are.

Originally, the story behind it was I was a kid that just needed to know why.

Why?

Why?

Why?

And I imagined for years.

A mom juggling all of the things that she was at that time and having a kid who my dad said came out of the chute litigating.

That's a little crass.

But, you know, when you're younger, you always believe there's an answer for absolutely everything.

And so as I got older, I sort of just tapped into it kind of like a touchstone.