Amity Gaige on Self-Esteem

My Mother, Learning to Live

By Amity Gaige
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the January 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Novelist Amity Gaige recounts the time of her first, real loss of self-esteem and takes heart from her mother's example.

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