My incredible mom, early 1970s. She gave up a career dancing for Ballet West to raise us.

    by ElderScrotes

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    1. Odd-Reason835 on

      Very common for women of that time to give up their passions and dreams for their family/kids. We owe *a lot* to women for fueling society. 

    2. ElderScrotes on

      When we got the news in spring of 2015 that any treatments were going to be ineffective, I wanted to record her life story so all of our family could hear her voice and see her as she was before it got really bad. It’d been a long battle since her breast cancer diagnosis in 1996. I recorded videos totaling around 22 hours with my mom.

      One of her thoughts on leaving a career as a ballet dancer and being a mom were “but as time went on, I, I realized that, you know, maybe a professional company wasn’t really going to fit in with what I really wanted to do. And as old fashioned as it sounded, as it sounds now, really, the only thing that I ever really wanted to be was a mother.”

      So I was born, and she wouldn’t let me watch The Simpsons or Batman (1989) but also spent the rest of her life raising and loving an incredible family.

    3. Fractal_Tomato on

      Ballet is pretty hard on the body, it’s nothing people can do all their life. I assume she planned to leave her career at some point. The earlier, the less longterm damage. At least she was able to live her dream at some point.

    4. Advanced_Poet5300 on

      Beautiful picture of her. She sounds like a wonderful mom. 🤩😍🥰❤️

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