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   In What My Mother Gave Me, ladies consider the associations between parents and children via a new lens: a daughter’s tale of the present from her mother that's handled her to the bone and served as a design, a metaphor, or perhaps a touchstone in her own existence. The allies of those thirty one unique items include Pulitzer Prize winners, traditional best-selling writers, and famous broadcast correspondents.       Whether something special was designed to maintain a child comfortable, place a roof over her head, advise her in the methods for womanhood, motivate her skills, or simply advise her of the mother’s love, each tale reaches one's heart of the connection.       Rita Dove recalls the container of nail-polish that influenced her to paint her fingernails in the polka-dots and stripes she wears even today.