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Independence Day
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Self-Care Isn't Selfish
By Ellarry Prentice

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~Moshe Dayan

I can still hear those defiant words blaring from the radio in my mother’s Volkswagen sedan. Sitting alongside my mother as we scurried about the streets of our little town, running our usual errands, she sang along without missing a beat. She raised her left arm — the other firmly on the wheel — as if to accentuate the melody, and sang with the passion of someone who could relate to the woman described in the song, with the passion of someone with newfound freedom and independence.

From the frequent screaming and fighting, the abusive language, and the love/hate drama that had unfolded between my parents before my eyes, I knew that “Independence Day,” written by Gretchen Peters, was more than just a popular song that summer. For my mother, it was the music of courage and self-confidence. For me, at the formative age of fourteen, it was the music that turned my world upside down. (Keep reading)

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