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Everything I know about being loving and caring, and sacrificing and showing up and being present in my children's lives—I learned all of that from her example.
Essay for the Center for American Progress / The Shriver Report ("I Promise"), 2014
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Written for the 2014 Shriver Report on women and poverty, LeBron described being raised by his single mother Gloria — who had him at sixteen — and credited her example as the source of everything he knows about parenting. Raised without a father himself, he learned fathering by watching mothering.

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