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Eulogy for MotherWhen I was a young boy, there were three words that my mother utter to me apiece morning, five days a week, nine months a year for 12 years....RISE AND SHINE, she would say. It meant we were to get up for another day of school.If I had known then, what I know now, there would have been about five words I would have said to her each time. My mother didnt have the benefit of a good, solid education. But, she was the smartest person Ive ever known. She didnt have a diploma or degree from any school or university. But, she had a PhD in tone and yet another, in dear.Many had said of her that she did too much for us, her children. It was said that perhaps she loved us too much. But, I ask of you, notwith stand how can you do too much for your children and even more, how can you love them too much? What people seemed to forget was the circumstances surrounding our bearing at root word when we were coming up. She had to be both mother and founder to us. Yes, we had a father there, in body. It was momma who did for us, it was mama who watched out for us, it was mama who calmed our fears. It was mama who said that one day things would get better for us, that the blank at the end of the tunnel wasnt an oncoming train. She was right. There are so many memories of her that I scarcely know where to begin. One that seems to be standing out most right now is when we moved to a dress called Woolmarket, MS. This place was so far out in the woods, I deliberate they had to import daylight to separate day from night. My first day in the second grade, I was confused as to what bus to take home from school. So, I decided I would walk home down the pass I thought was where we lived. As you can imagine, my mother was frantic when the bus came by our house and I didnt get off. She got a neighbor to help her go looking for me, her wayward son. When they came across me, I was so embarrassed, I didnt indispensability to get in the car. My mother ASSURED me I was getting into that car.