My mother, my heroine: "When I tell her I love her, she now says she loves me too."

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“She is my horizon of beauty, love and motherhood. […] My mother has always been for me the most beautiful in the world, the most resilient whatever the limits of this word,” wrote the writer Hemley Boum in a post published on her Instagram account in December. This tribute in which she praises the virtues of the one who brought her into the world resonates with the words of those who chose, on the occasion of Mother’s Day, to tell Libération about the admiration they have for their mother. Today, Lisa, 49, a shopkeeper and founder of a second-hand brand in Paris, tells how her mother never lets her leave without giving her a good little dish.