was

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　　to see the new peeler in operation, but my mother kept using her old knife. After several days of

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　　, I asked her, “Mom, why don’t you use the new potato peeler?”

　　“My goodness, I must have

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　　,” she replied. “I’ll use it tomorrow.”

　　But she didn’t. I

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　　hid her old knife once in the dark drawer, hoping she’d have to use the new peeler.

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　　Mom found the old knife and kept using it. Finally I asked her if she wasn’t

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　　her Mother’s Day gift.

　　“Alvin, the best part of the potato is just

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　　the skin,” she explained. “This new type of peeler wastes too much of the potato and

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　　the best part.”

　　Seeing the

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　　look on my face, she

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　　, “Alvin, I’ll always remember your

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　　. I’ll keep it in the drawer forever

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　　every time I open it and see the peeler I’ll be

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　　of what a wonderful Mother’s Day it was.”

　　Fifty years later, when my brother and I

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