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Cindy Adams pays tribute to her dear mom Jessica: ‘Tell your mother you love her’
Mother of all memories
Every Mother’s Day I print this tribute as a Mother Lover because I never loved any creature — man, woman, two-footed or four-footed — the way I loved my mom.
We came from nothing. Grandparents emigrated from Russia to Lower East Side, Grandma cleaned stoops and took in boarders. Grandpa, a bad tailor, never made a cent. Their baby Jessica, my mother, was born in Liverpool, on their way here.
Each generation improved. Mom, beautiful. English perfect.
Mother liked nothing about the dentist she married — including his teeth — and divorced him after I was born. An executive secretary, she was a single parent.
She later remarried. An insurance man. He became my real father and........