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To tramp the streets of New York is one of the most rewarding means of transportation in the city. Sure a bus is great and the winter carriage is a lot of fun but neither compares to the city sites by foot; and all I need to carry is my coach soho signature hobo bag.

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I never knew how much the city had to offer while in college. After all I was a bit of a recluse staying up late, trudging through endless hours of study and chasing down professors getting check lists signed off. I really didn't have much time for anything else.

Every so often I would make it to a soccer or basketball game but soon all was well rewarded when on graduation day my mother gave me a special gift and I will never forget what she said. She said, "Alley, a women's purse is her signature carriage, so take this with you wherever you go and let the world open itself up to you."

I really didn't know what she meant at the time but later I came to understand that when you present yourself with confidence, the world becomes your stomping ground. So what I found in my bag was reliance, self assurance and most importantly, confidence.

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I can remember the pink bicycle carriage you got me for my unicorn huffy two wheeler or the hours we spent drawing all over the fence with chalk as daddy looked on as to say, what are they up to know?

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Or when I would come home from school crying because I was smaller than all the other kids and you would tell me, "The greatest things come in the smallest of packages". Or the first day I got on the school bus to embark on the next passage of life.

I can remember like it was yesterday coming home from soccer or basketball games dirty from head to toe; and that never changing smile on your face as though you were so proud to clean up the muddy foot prints I would track in after practice.

And I will never forget the day I graduated from college and the coach signature small hobo bag you gave me as a gift to enter the world as strong, independent and confident women. To this day, what stays with me is how the things I treasure the most really do come in the smallest of packages.

So as I tramp the streets of New York no longer a recluse, I just wanted to tell you how thankful I am for having a wonderful mother like you, who shaped me with love into the woman I am today.

Signed with love,
Alley

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I am loading the bus with kids headed off to their soccer game one day when one of the kids tugged at my pant leg and spoke in this squeaky little voice with tears falling from his heartbroken little eyes, "Mrs. Vanderwheel, do you think I am too small to be a good soccer player? The other kids make fun of me because I am so much smaller then they are."

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My heart was soft with love for this tiny little player. While digging in my coach soho signature small flap bag for a tissue, I also searched my memory archives for the right things to say. "Of course you are, let me tell you a story. There was once this boy. He was so small that all the other kids made fun of him for wanting to become a famous basketball player. His mother assured him that if he tried with all his might, and believed that he could do anything he wanted.

So he practiced harder and longer then the rest of the kids day in and day out until one day he grew up to become the smallest basketball player ever signed to the NBA and his name was Muggsy Bogues of the New York Knicks."