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Originally Artist:  Marty Robbins had an Album:  My Woman, My Woman, My Wife recorded in the Year:  1970--our dad bought a collection on vinyl of the classic country songs by Readers Digest, as a matter of fact. This had to be one of my favorite slower songs that had me think of how difficult it is to be a woman behind a man instead of next to him, which the song states equally next to while 'our mom' was seemingly put behind. Her parents put her first, I put her first, for she always put everyone ahead of herself in need and want and making it happen.

A gem in her own right, discarded like a piece of coal only by the people she uplifted to where they belonged, if only for her. Some take the words to songs as messages of hope, I took this one as message of caution. "Don't be more than you can be, just be you" and the higher power you converse with be the only power that makes you stronger than you could of ever imagined."

This year, 1974, my mom is with her om in the room my grandparents slept and conversed till wee hours of the morning in. It was a simple room but genuinely filled with love and the crafts that grandma collected or hand-made herself on every table, nightstand, lampshade or valance. The 'magic of the old country' was predominantly shining through in grandmas home, but here with my mom and grandma upstairs, while me downstairs listening to an old phonograph, it was my haven.

I remember my mom coming downstairs with tears in her eyes, she found out her mom was sick. I just looked up at her and hugged her and let her hug me till she had enough, which is never cause with the strength of Marty Robbins 'woman', my mom turned out to be the strongest of us all . . . and in hugging her I realized the two of us could handle anything ! Thank goddess she is still beside me walking along every untravelled road with me and never letting me stay weak or abused very long.

My dad could not have had the more perfect woman, then the woman my mom was, his wife . . . it is unfortunate good things do not last forever, but I still have her with me and I will be blessed eternally.