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When I turned in my last blog about my angel mother<\/a>, I got a nice surprise from my colleague, Brooke Obie, who works on the digital team. She came over to my desk, smiling big. \u201cSpeaking of mothers\u2026\u201d she said kind of shyly, and clicked around for a second on her phone. Then she showed me a picture she\u2019d snapped. I took the phone to see better.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cI caught Mom unexpectedly,\u201d Brooke said, \u201cafter she\u2019d fallen asleep while reading.\u201d Brooke\u2019s mom\u2019s hand was resting on an open book, and I was taken with the elegance of the woman\u2019s long piano fingers, her manicured nails, her pretty wedding ring. Simply a hand on a book, but somehow such a peaceful scene. Then I turned the photo a bit, curious to make out what it was Brooke\u2019s mom was reading. A devotional book of some sort. But Brooke and I had never shared family photos before. Why was she showing me this one now? I looked up at her, wondering.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at the bookmark,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s from our magazine!\u201d Sure enough, an Angels on Earth<\/em> bookmark held her mom\u2019s place.<\/p>\n

I work mostly in print, Brooke works mostly on digital. We can get caught up in our busy schedules and go days without so much as a hello. But I love knowing that my colleague across the way and I have at least one essential thing in common, our angel mothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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