Mother: I've given up everything I've ever wanted --
Maddie: (sighs) -- yes --
Mother: -- so that you could have --
Maddie: -- yes --
Mother: -- what I didn't.
Maddie: Everything that you've always wanted. Yes. I've
heard that. Every mother says that. But I don't
want what you didn't have. I want what I didn't
have.
~ Lady in the Lake
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Having recently gone through Mom's house to determine the things I wanted to keep, I can vouch for the fact that the things she wanted were not all things I wanted. I wanted a few things, but I'm not very sentimental.
Sentimental comes from the Latin for "to feel." I guess maybe that means I'm not very feeling.
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