Thanks, Carol and Alle! I love it when people take the time to re-read my stuff. 
I totally do not want to diss mothers and daughters, but - and maybe it's because I only have a son - a mother's love for her son is something really hard to explain. I can't imagine the millions of mothers who sent their sons off to war, nor the pain of the mothers whose sons never came home. Mick's mother must have been overjoyed to have her boy back where he belonged.
