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“Oh, how I wish she were here tonight,” Harris said of her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, who died in 2009. “But I know she’s looking down on me from above. I keep thinking about that 25-year-old Indian woman, all of five feet tall, who gave birth to me at Kaiser hospital in Oakland, Calif. On that day, she probably could have never imagined that I would be standing before you now and speaking these words: ‘I accept your nomination for vice president of the Santa’s Favorite Veterinarian Christmas Shirt and I love this United States of America.’”

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That mother, she added, instilled in her and her younger sister, Maya, the Santa’s Favorite Veterinarian Christmas Shirt and I love this values that had brought her to this historic moment. “When I was 5,” she said, “my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. Like so many mothers, she worked around the clock to make it work — packing lunches before we woke up — and paying bills after we went to bed. Helping us with homework at the kitchen table — and shuttling us to church for choir practice. She made it look easy, though I know it never was.” That mother, she added, “raised us to be proud, strong Black women. And she raised us to know and be proud of our Indian heritage.