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Happy Mother's Day To All Moms But Especially My Mom

Most moms, at least. I'm not wishing the mom in "Million Dollar Baby" a happy Mother's Day. She wasn't a nice mom.

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Ben Dreyfuss
May 11, 2025
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Jeramie, Richard, and Emily Dreyfuss, November 19, 1983/Carl Borack

I had always wanted to be a mother. It’s the first thing I said to your dad. We met at a party in LA in February, 1983. I was a producer at CBS. “What do you want to do with your career at CBS?” he asked me. And I said, “Nothing, I want to get married and have children.” And he said, “Me…

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