Misty-eyed Mom

[Times photo: Ron Thompson]


Valerie Williams' tears are a puzzle Friday to her daughter, Whitney, a second-grader in Joe Mattingly's class at Hernando Elementary. For a Mother's Day celebration, students served their mothers breakfast and presented each mother with a bean bag weighing and measuring the same as her child at birth. Williams began crying when teacher Pat Rundio read from Love You Forever..

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