Angelina Jolie had such a close relationship with her mother that she was devastated when she passed away.
The love and memories that she has of her mother Marcheline was the impetus of the idea to have the twins in France. Angelina wanted to honor her mother with the twins birth. The twins were the first babies she had without her mother there to be a part of the experience. Angelina said, "She was an amazing mom and she shouldn't have passed away so young.
She was partly French-Canadian, and she always loved France, so when I was deciding where to have the children, it was just a very comforting idea to do it in France, because I knew she would have loved it. That's a reason why we're all learning French, too, because she always wanted my children to speak the language. It's a beautiful language and a beautiful culture, and being in that part of the world always reminds me of her."
Every comment I've tried to type sounds trite in the face of real sentiment, so I will leave this as is.
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