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...When she gets fed up, my mom always announces to the kids, `I'm not your mother right now, I'm going off-duty,'" Antoinette says, laughing. And so, one fills in for the other and the two women have grown closer through the give-and-take involved in raising young children...
...When I've talked to my mom about her teenage years she always felt that she had to ditch class and hang out with the `cool' kids," Antoinette says. But social pressure has never been a problem for Antoinette. "I've always had a very independent way about me, a very independent nature. It seems silly that just because a whole group of people is doing drugs, having sex, or whatever, that I would...
...mother and daughter look back on Antoinette's childhood, each woman admires the strength of the other. "Sure, we were going through hard times," Antoinette says, but the hard times didn't change their strong relationship. "My mom didn't place her own limitations--her lack of education and her economic status--on me. She taught me that if I wanted anything, it was within my reach...
...Antoinette sees her ambition "as coming from how I was raised. My mom just sees it as this really great thing--she doesn't know where it comes from. She barely graduated high school and I'm at Harvard. It's like night...
...TWELVE THE FIRST TIME I HEARD A DOCTOR TELL my mom that she was going...