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    Best Mother's Day Gift Ever

    Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:39 AM | By Emily Bazelon
    Damn, Jessica. You've really shown up the rest of us. How are we ever going to find Mother's Day presents to rival the one you arranged for your mom—weeks early, yet? Courtesy of your funny and clever new book, Love Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home, your mother gets to be in The New Yorker's Talk of the Town. She's described as "a psychiatrist with a cool haircut." And she's quoted saying sagely, “As my own mother always says, children are at the center of parents’ lives, and parents are on the periphery. We write e-mails that have to be perceived as lame, because independence has to be preserved.” True. Coup. I quit.
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