English Listening - In Memory of My Mom

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  Welcome to the Listening Time podcast.

• 00:03

  Hey, everybody.

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  This is Connor, and you're listening to episode 159 of the Listening Time podcast.

• 00:13

  Thank you all for listening.

• 00:15

  I hope that this podcast has been helpful for you, to help you practice your listening skills in English.

• 00:24

  And in today's episode, I'm going to talk about something a little bit personal.

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  For me, this isn't something that I normally do, and so this is kind of a special episode, but it's a topic that's really on my mind right now.

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  So I thought it would be good to talk a little bit about this.

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  So I'm going to talk a little bit about my mom in this episode because, unfortunately, my mom just passed away, and so it's something that my family and I are dealing with right now.

• 01:07

  And, of course, my mom is on my mind, and I thought it would be good to talk a little bit about how my mom influenced me as a teacher and as a parent.

• 01:25

  I'd prefer to talk about those two things here in this episode rather than just talk about all of her great traits and attributes.

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  I'm gonna do a little more of that at her memorial service when I give a speech there.

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  And so instead of just saying everything that I'm going to say during her memorial service, I want to talk about how she influenced me in these two areas as a teacher and as a parent.

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  So I'm sure that you'll enjoy this episode, and you.

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  You'll enjoy hearing about how great my mom was and the great influence that she had on me in these two areas of my life.

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  And I want to mention that I would appreciate it if you didn't send me messages with condolences.

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  Condolences refers to when you tell someone that you're very sorry to hear about their loss.

• 02:42

  I know that that's a really nice thing to do, but I ask you not to send me messages, please.

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  It's really not something I want to deal with right now because I feel obliged to have to respond to all these messages.

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  And we have a lot of things that we need to do right now as a family, and it's a stressful time, and I'd prefer not to receive tons of messages that I feel like I have to respond to.

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