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What is the central idea of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem "The Courage That My Mother Had"?

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The narrator recalls her mother's courageous behavior

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D. The narrator wishes she could have inherited her mother’s courage.

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Because in the poem she said's that she could give up on one of her mother objects, but says that if she had her mothers courage. She would never trade it ever.

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