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MAY May is the month of the goddess, the Great Creatrix and all other mothers. The mothers of children, mothers of invention, mothers of causes, mothers of endeavors, mothers of one’s Self. Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have…