I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy.…

Sonia Sotomayor
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I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life. ✨ NBC's Guthrie Chats With Sotomayor About Her Love Life in Softball Interview. Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.
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