It’s funny in less than ideal situations we tend to learn positive lessons. When faced with adversity early in your life it becomes a mere hurdle rather than an obstacle. It gets easier to see truth in a dark light when you know there’s always a tomorrow.

My mother is from France (Lyons) and I don’t know what it is about the culture there with their kids but she didn’t care too much for my sister and I. My father was Brazilian and after my conception, my folks and my sister who lived in Rio de janeiro, learned that my mothers parents and brothers settled in nebraska to open up a motor company on west O street in Lincoln. I lived in Brazil for a few short years and was raised the rest of my life in Lincoln by an embittered woman, scorned by the man responsible for my sisters life and my life. Since I looked so much like my father I guess she only really saw him and I was often ignored. Tho she was not nearly the caliber of mother I would have wanted her emotional distance taught me the value of independence as well, and the importance of loving those that love you. She was not an awful mother but she wasn’t cut out to do it. I honored her the best I could before I set out on my own at 18 and tried to find my way.

So I appreciate it when a young man speaks highly of his mother and explains through conviction all facets on which his success is a trait of her success. You’re a good man raymonn. Keep up the positive!