My mom would have turned 80 years old today

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She was born in Frankfurt, Germany 10 months after Hitler took power. Hitler made the children leave the cities during World War II she walked for miles in the winter of 1943 through the snow and got frost bite on her leg. Later with the change of hormones during her pregnancy she had to have her leg amputated with just local anesthetic in order to save her unborn child (me) because that frost bite triggered gangrene. She emigrated with her son to the US made her citizenship and then encouraged me to make mine. She never missed an election and never once voted for a Republican. She died at 51 one years of age from ovarian cancer still encouraging others to vote and work for a liberal platform!!!