1004Alise sent this SOTM in from Syracuse, NY, USA. She wrote: “My mom told me this in the midst of her battle with breast cancer. I was 16, and I remember being shocked.

"She died about a year later, and although she never got to see me graduate, the more I think about those words, the less bitter I feel, and the more grateful I am just that she wanted so badly to be there - she loved me that much.”