My Mom's Quote Analysis

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Last week, when I wrote about my mom's quote, I forgot one;

If you don't laugh, you will cry. She use to say this to me a lot when I was in the ninth grade. That was a hard year for me. On top of going to a high school across town, where I didn't know most of the kids; my parents split up. I find life is full of these crazy moments, you just don't know how to handle. I mean when I was a kid, I thought things would unfold like a TV sitcom, I would find a solution in half a hour. But it is not like that at all. It seems like the more you search for the answers, the more questions you find. It is downright frustrating. It makes me want to sit down and cry like a big baby. But than I have to look it at if from a different angel. It's kind of

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