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Today is Mother\u2019s Day. I am eager to get to my brother\u2019s and be with the crowd. I am especially eager to see my baby. She doesn\u2019t like me to talk about her, so I won\u2019t. Not too much, at least. I\u2019m not going to say what she did (ok?), but she just accomplished something very important in her professional life and I am kind of bursting with pride. When she presented to me that which I shall not talk about, I cried. She looked at me patiently and said: \u201cdon\u2019t cry, mom\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
There is an expression in Portuguese that designates a parent that is pathetically and irrationally proud if his\/her offspring: the \u201cowl\u201d parent. \u201cYou\u2019re such an owl, mom!\u201d, she, whom I shall not name, says to me.<\/p>\n
She is not a powelifter but she did try her strength in our Higher Art. You must believe my objective coach\u2019s diagnose when I say that was probably the most perfect flat-feet-on-the-ground bench arch I (and everybody else) have ever seen. Her shoulder blades adduction is equally good. She climbed the platform once, left everybody in awe and left.<\/p>\n
And I am not an owl !!<\/p>\n
She was a planned baby. Her birth is one of the few things in my life that I planned and accomplished regardless of anybody else\u2019s opinion. My baby \u2013 my choice. I must have been scary to doctors and nurses. During her delivery, I growled at the doctors and told them to shut up. I scolded them for discussing irrelevant things during my sacred moment. They apologized and shut up as they were told. I did not allow them to keep her at the nursery: she was completely healthy, I demanded she be returned to me immediately. My baby, my choice, end of story.<\/p>\n
Besides being the incredible woman that she is, she is a landmark of my taking back my life into my hands. She had to put up with a lot during my struggle with my disorders.<\/p>\n
Today, she is one of my chief supporters. She is a generous person and she truly wants me to be happy. When I travel to a meet, she\u2019s always waiting to hear the news.<\/p>\n
I am a strong mom. At the core of my strength, though, is my baby. She is the true Powerhouse of my inner strength and my power.<\/p>\n
I am a powerlifter because I have all this: inner strength, power and, above all, my baby.<\/p>\n
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