I think it’s because I didn’t have a mother. I really wanted to have a mother. Every child, I think, wants to have that one person who’s going to be your forever person. I used to take my friends’ moms and totally be the kiss-ass nice. My friends were like, 'Will you stop talking to my mom?' You’re supposed to hate your mother when you’re fourteen or fifteen, right?

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