I'm the youngest of 8. My mother and I were very close. I was 33 when she died. I would have never had those yrs with her if she was successful in her attempts.

She was the most compassionate person I've ever known. She made our carport into a home for stray cats. There were a lot, I grew up in a low income area. Anyway, she paid our neighbor to make little cubbies for the strays to keep warm in the winter, lol. She fed them and gave them antibiotics when they would get sick from abscesses or whatever. Just a wonderful person.