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My mother experienced a loss of innocence when she was around nine years old. This was when her mother became ill and had a period of time in which she was hospitalized for long periods of time. During this time there was no one else home, because all her siblings had moved out and her father was gone on business trips. In order to deal with this she had to learn how to cook and clean on her own. She had to learn how to do every other normal thing that a mother would do for a child on her own. She learned much of how to fend for herself and not always rely on others. She learned to keep a daily routine that would be able to be done alone. She is currently doing fine and her mother is now passed this spell of illness.