21.   Jim Broadbent remembered his mother, too.

22.   On the Christmas that comes to mind, I remember my mother reading me a letter from my father who was somewhere in France.

23.   Oranges and tangerines are also symbols of good luck, and Chen remembers her mother giving oranges as gifts during the season.

24.   She remembers her mother also cooking with an iron skillet on a wood stove, and she remembers a dish similar to the one the other reader recalled.

25.   She remembers her mother making her take her brother, who was almost nine years younger, to church.

26.   She remembers her mother suddenly quitting her Sunday-afternoon chores.

27.   She remembers her mother making a dessert for Sunday dinner for years.

28.   The actress remembers her mother being a strict disciplinarian.

29.   The people at the rundown hotel remember her mother, but little else.

30.   They never knew their American fathers, and remember their mother only as someone who left them to fend for themselves at night.