Multiple adoption

I ran into Julita, Scarleth's mother, at the bank near my house today. She told that her family and she loved me very much and that she was my mom.

My mom??? That comment sounded so familiar...

You know, during these last months, I've been receiving so many of these comments... and repeatedly, too... I think I have seven moms:

1. The original one, you know, the one who's in Chicago. She doesn't actually TELL ME she's my mom... I guess she assumes that I know.
   
2. Aunt Violeta, the aunt who has always told me she loves me very very very very very very very very very much, and that if she were 15 years younger, I wouldn't be alive anymore. That can has made me wonder about accidental homicide.
3. Kira de Abreu, my abacus teacher. She doesn't really come out in intense emotional outbursts like my aunt does, but I recall her telling me once: "since your mother isn't in the country, I'll be taking her place with some of my advice". She has already told me not to marry either a native USA girl or a guatemalan girl "tirada con onda" living in the USA, and I intend on following that advice. Strictly.
4. Norma de González, a 75-year old classmate at my abacus class on thursday morning during the past year, and my computational-usage student tuesday mornings at her place. She half-jokingly tells me that I need motherly advice because I'm at a very important stage in my life - a stage of change. She's told me lots of funny advice, but the kind I remember most is the dietary and culinary kind. She's told me how to save on food, which good foods to eat, and how I should NEVER, NEVER throw food away.
5. Isabelita Gutiérrez de Bosch, the woman who financially supported most of my higher-level education from 2004-2006. We're not THAT close, and she just made a slight remark about being my mom, but it ought to count...
6. Miriam Hernández, my transpersonal therapist several months ago, and now a good friend of mine. I also recall her saying something like that to me. Her advice, of course, was so much and varied that it's hard to write it all. But in a nutshell, she tells me I should look for myself, and live my life exactly as I want it to be. And achieve supreme happiness and consciousness. Yep.
   
7. Julita Pérez de Arévalo, my friend Scarleth's mom. She's HIGHLY religious, an AVID rule-follower, and she says she loves me very much. Thank you for everything, Julita. Oh yeah, her advice: she's told me that the most important thing in life is God, and that I should seek it during my life. Sort-of makes sense.
   

Maternal instinct seems to abound around me.

Thanks moms! You've been a great support for us all! We thank you all from a certain point in our hearts, different for each one of you.