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Parents make numerous sacrifices throughout their lives and the lives of their children. An illustration of a parents sacrifice can be related to Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing in which a mother has hardships in raising her eldest daughter, Emily. In the presence of her mother, Emily would feel anonymous and neglected. Since her mother would send her way to live with relatives or strangers. From the start, Emily was a beautiful baby, but after her chicken pox her mother called her homely. However, one day she decides to enter a talent show and is now transformed from "homely" to a "Somebody". In the end, her mother says “She is more than this dress on the ironing board,” which means that her mother wanted Emily to overcome obstacles in her own life, the ones that her mother had stumbled on. That’s why her mother kept ironing; she wanted the dress to be flat and unwrinkled, just like she wanted Emily to be perfect and problem free.