![I couldn't understand her [my mother's] wiring, all the time. I couldn't understand how she denied herself pleasure and enjoyment in life. As my career got successful and I wanted to do things for her, she wasn't able to allow them because she just didn't work that way. It was always that. It wasn't necessarily ugly, just complicated.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-couldnt-understand-her-my-mothers-wiring-all-the-time-i-couldnt-understa.jpg)
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