My mother is the strongest person I know. She has been through so much, yet she was able to raise and educate her children as well as she did. She had the courage to get away from a torturing marriage. She left without a job, a place to live, a car, or money for that matter. She never gave up on us nor herself. She got her GED and went to college to become a medical assistant. Working hard and making sure that none of her children were missing anything was her number one priority. The stress of being a single mother made her love for us much stronger.