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Yet I cannot say that I was very deeply attached to my mother; certainly not so deeply as I should have been had our relations in childhood been different.
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Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgFrederick Douglass: “Yet I cannot say that I was very deeply attached to my mother; certainly not so deeply as I should have been had our…”
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Douglass reflects on the emotional distance from his mother due to their separation.
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