while your brothers and sister are living all over the world they're ambassadors and what have you
 why did you run away with this loser? she replied that she'd fallen in love with Papa, and made her decision to run away with him so they could be together. yet my mother is a strong, strong woman. in spite of everything i watched her go through, i never heard her complain. i never heard her say, i'm fed up with this; or i'm not doing this anymore. Mama was simply silent and hard as iron.