In Lessons from Babe, my quirky mother-daughter memoir, there’s a lesson “Sharing Fun Is The Whole Thing.” For Babe, sharing fun also meant “Celebrate Everything!"
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At 95, Babe still had a valid U.S. passport.
But by then the most my mother, who was known as Babe, could manage was a domestic flight from Houston to Los Angeles to visit me, and even that was a stretch. So I dreaded dropping the news that Ed, my husband, and I were leaving for China. It didn’t seem fair that I could still up and go, and she couldn’t.
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