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My sons, I bore the long pains of labor for you and even more stress in raising you for no reason!
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"Look at my children! Some aren't married, others are married, but none of them have children! Now I will never see your children or have the pleasure of being a grandmother.
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I had so many and such beautiful children, and now I'm a widow and left all alone in my many sorrows.
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When I die, I won't have any of my sons to bury me."
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But this holy and devout mother didn't cry for any of her sons with funeral songs. She didn't try to talk any of them out of dying, and she didn't grieve for those who were already dying.