"It is a saying you might not understand, sweet child, but what I meant was that if they couldn't think of it as what they should do, then I would not be forced to bother them before I could feed myself. I have always said that I will never be a burden to my children. I will not be the kind of mother that the children will see her call and grumble that this woman is calling again to ask for something, or the kind of mother that they will ignore her calls because they know that the outcome of picking up that call would have something to do with...