- [Interviewee] My mum is Danette Burse; an incredible and gentle spirit who taught me everything I know. That's who my mum is.
(somber music) - My mum is Doriane E. Miller. - My mum is Marilyn Dresler. - My mum is Kristian Gilmore Pine. - You know I feel like
there's not too many people you come across in the world that like, every moment you have
together is just like intrinsically beautiful. - She is an amazing woman. The most stubborn, strongest woman I've ever met. - She really pushed me, she really motivated me
to do all these things, she helped me. - She can make everybody
her friend kind of and I think that's something
that she gave to me. - I know a lot of people
like in this world like they hold grudges. She had an incredible ability to forgive. - My mother died of pneumonia. Remember seeing my father
cry for the first time but other than that I
don't really remember much outside of home videos. - My mom got really sick
when I was really young. - They missed a lump in one of her breasts and the lump spread
through her second breast; hair, lymph nodes,
stomach, back, and brain, and they only gave her six weeks to live, and I was a sophomore in
high school at the time. - My mom was diagnosed with
a rare form of breast cancer and in September of 2014 she passed away. - I didn't really know how
cancer was going to work. I didn't know how quickly it would act. - She passed on May 1st. We buried her May 3rd. My birthday is May 5th. I graduated on Mother's Day May 9th. - It's one thing to like
lose a parent, you know. It's also like another
thing to lose a best friend. I think that it's not something you ever really get over, you know? You just learn to
understand what it means. I just learned to love harder. - I lived in fear for many,
many years of my life. She was sick for eight years before she finally passed away. Every morning I would go to school, not sure if she'd be
there when I got home. - She was such a good person that would listen and just give eloquent, and intelligent, and thoughtful responses, and caring responses. - I used to have to like do
those science fair projects that everybody has to do
with like the poster board and everything like that, and my mom would like get more excited about the project than I would. So like, I would stay up all night long, putting together what I thought was an incredible project, and I would wake up and
like the poster board would be completely different. It would be like cut-out
and like trekked down, they'll be like 3D and all of this stuff, and we would just have this moment where I would just like look at her and she'll look at me. And I remember coming home
with the first place medal and I was just like Mom we did it! And she was like, "Yeah, we did that." - The day after she had
this brain operation, I wrote this paper and it was garbage. And she took it and she
revamped the whole thing, and when I got it I was like, this doesn't even sound like I wrote this, I don't know if I can submit this. She was like, "You'll be
fine. Just submit it." And I got the paper back the next day and I got a B plus, and she was so pissed
because she didn't get an A, and that's the type of person she was. - As I grow older and realize more how my mom kept it together for us and how long she fought to stay alive to be around for her children, that's who my mom is. - I find myself talking to my mom at least once or twice a day. - Certain times I talk less, sometimes we talk more. You know it really depends on how bad of a day I'm having. - I say hi to her everyday. Sometimes out loud, sometimes not. - I felt like intrinsically
like she became my argonaut, like she gave her life
to be a protector for me. And so I got this tattoo that says argo and I got it at all lowercase because she was an
extremely humble person, but I got it in bold because
her presence was felt wherever she went, and I got it on my foreman because I wanted to wear
her bravery on my sleeve. - Mom, I just want to say I love you and thank you for everything
you've instilled in me. - Even though she's not physically here, my mom is still very much a part of me and who I am everyday. - Thank you for everything. Thank you for your sacrifices and everything you did for
me, for Seth, for Emmett. I hope we've made you proud. Everything that we've
done is because of you. Everything we've wanted to do, everything we've driven
for is because of you. - Mom I love you so much
and I miss you everyday, and I still think about you everyday. Even though I only had it
for a limited amount of time, I feel so lucky to have the bond that
I did with my mother. - We used to have this thing where like we would never say goodbye. So it's not goodbye. It's just see you later and I'm okay. We're okay. I love you.
