“Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you’ll never miss a mother’s love
Till she’s buried beneath the clay.”

—  Frank McCourt, book Angela's Ashes

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Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer 1930–2009

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