Celebrating Motherhood in Pictures
Here are some of our favorite photos recognizing moms of all kinds submitted by readers over the last nine years
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Chrissy Astbury, Albuquerque, New Mexico
June 2009 Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Eric Guarino, Chefchaouen, Morocco
March 2010 Chefchaouen, Morocco
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Joydeep Mukherjee
Sonepur, Bihar, India
November 2010
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Marc Abrahms, Masai Mara, Kenya
September 2009
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Christopher Farber, Juba, southern Sudan
April 2007
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Mark Rosenbaum, Chicago, Illinois
January 2007
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Robert Tannenbaum, Baldwin, New York
January 2009
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Budi Prakasa, Serpong, West Java, Indonesia
May 2009
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Henry Ascencio, Teopantlan, Mexico
December 2010
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Zaw Zaw Tun, Yangon, Myanmar
October 2010
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Sachin Shah, Masai Mara, Kenya
October 2008
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Ho Sung Wee, Banting, Malaysia
May 2010
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Sydney Ledwith-Jensen, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
August 2009
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John Bice, Ankara, Turkey
August 2008
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Shyamal Das, West Bengal, India
July 2007
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Abhijit Dey, West Bengal, India
November 2009
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Tim Foltz, Irvine, California
June 2009
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Stephen Bures,Ta Van Village, Vietnam
November 2011