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Rachel Kane

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
93 total appearances

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All right.

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So my mom died when I was nine years old.

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And 10 years later, I was getting married and having babies of my own.

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And when I put it like that, it's like, oh my God, that was way too young.

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But yes.

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And I found myself at this age feeling completely lost.

The Moth
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I didn't have a mom.

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I was a mom.

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And I was constantly questioning if I was a good mom and if I was going to do this right.

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And I cared.

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I cared a lot.

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And I had a lot of really grand ideas that have

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gone down a lot since then.

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But at the time, I really dreamed of sharing the highest forms of art and music and literature with my children.

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I fantasized that they'd be reading Shakespeare at five.

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No.

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It's a lot of Pokemon.

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It's not good.

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But I had these fantasies, and one day, in an effort to get started on this, I brought home a really great classic art house film to share with my two children, four and five years old.

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You guys might have heard of it.

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