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When I move out one day…my Mom will be very sad.
I feel my Mom’s love in my heart.
Like…right here.
I’m feeling it like right now.
Sometimes I love her, sometimes I don’t.
When I’m angry, I don’t.
My Mom is everything to me.
She just is this ray of energy and sunlight and positivity.
The thing that…I wish I could have done more of is thanking her.
Didn’t matter what shape I was in, I could always come home to Mom.
My Mom was…basically the glue that held me together.
When I left the Philippines, I knew that my son will be in good hands because I know...
My Mom will take care of him.
[child speaks words on screen]
If I would say like from 1 to 10, it would be a 5.
Maybe my poor dad got the raw end of the deal, but I do remember my mother saying to him,
when there was an argument about something I’d done.
She says, “You don’t want to hurt her…spirit."
I remember that.
My Mom was diagnosed with a really rare disease, about 12 hours before she died.
So we…didn’t get a lot of time to talk or to say goodbye.
But she did get to say that she loved me, which were her last words.
And I cherish that…
because I have …I’ve been able to hang on to it.
I’m probably going to say to my Mom, you’re a wonderful person...
and…you’re my mentor.
I tie a invisible string to my heart, and she ties the same one to her heart.
And it’s always attached together.
My mother, she struggled a lot with addiction…
Sorry, I’m getting upset.
Yeah, it was hard.
You know, you have partners, you have friends, you have kids, um, but there is nobody else,
Who, um, who will ever care about you as much.
My son now, always tells me…I love you Mama.
But for 48 years, I realized I didn’t say I love you to my Mom.
I can think of three words.
I forgive you.
You were a good Mom, and you did really good.
And thank you Mom.
I love you Mom.
[Woman off screen] Hey Chelsea...
If Moms got paid, how much do you think they should get paid in a year for being a Mom?
[Chelsea] Maybe a hundred dollars?
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