The Day Your Mom Dies

Roxanne Jones: My mother was my everything. We were very, very close, very tight. And because of the relationship that I had with my father and because of the kind of man that he was, it put in an ordinary amount of responsibilities on her shoulders. She'd work from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven nights a week for 20 straight years with one week's vacation. "For me, to this day is the most devastating thing that ever happened to me," she says.