mothers

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Your Highness, the Aga Khan…President Kikwete …Prime Minister Harper… Minister Paradis… honourable guests…ladies and gentlemen…

Thank you, Ms. Brown, for your warm words. It’s a pleasure to be here.

You introduced me as “Queen” but I have to tell you, I have a bigger title than “Queen”.

It’s “Mom.”

Recently, I read about the miraculous story of baby Amillia Sonja Taylor who was born safely in a Florida hospital, after only 22 weeks' of gestation. Measuring no longer than a pen, Amillia overcame the odds, to enter the record books as the most premature baby ever to survive.

As a mother of four young children, I know the indescribable joy that the birth of a baby brings...and I can only guess at the relief and happiness that Amillia's parents felt taking her home from the hospital, four months after she was born.