2026年5月8日 美国东部时间晚8:52 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：史蒂夫·哈特曼
史蒂夫·哈特曼是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻通讯员，他在每周获奖的专题栏目《在路上》中，为观众带来他偶遇的普通人的暖心故事。
佛罗里达州博卡拉顿讯——博卡拉顿是佛罗里达州最富裕的城市之一，但即便在其金黄的海滩沿线，仍有人陷入财政困境。
“我会不由自主地担忧一些我觉得不该是小孩子该操心的事，”26岁的安娜·杜阿尔特告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，“……比如财务状况、住房问题，还有当晚要睡在哪里。”
安娜表示，童年时期她和母亲无家可归，生活窘迫， constantly居无定所。
“她一直想要一个家，”安娜的母亲安妮特·杜阿尔特说道，“她总是跟我要一个家……我们熬过了非常艰难的日子。”
安妮特做着女佣的长时间工作，还打了其他几份零工。但她总觉得至少她们母女俩还彼此相伴——两个人携手对抗全世界。
直到高中时，安娜的耐心和善意渐渐耗尽。她变得愤世嫉俗，开始将多年来的困顿都归咎于母亲。安娜最终离开了家。
“她总是生我的气，觉得我不在乎她，”安妮特说，“但我真的在乎。只是我当时束手无策，什么也做不了。”
“对我母亲来说，那简直是折磨，”安娜说，“但我别无选择，因为我不想再继续这样的生活了。我想要打造属于自己的人生。”
而她确实做到了。安娜从佛罗里达大西洋大学毕业，获得社会工作学位，并在国际基督教救济组织“赈济食品”（Food for the Poor）找到了工作。
她还拥有了自己的第一套真正的公寓，并且第一时间告诉了安妮特。
“我给她打了电话，”安娜说，“我就说，‘我现在有公寓了，是两室两卫的。你愿意搬来和我一起住吗？’”
安娜甚至把主卧留给了母亲。
“她当时一句话都没说，”安娜回忆母亲第一次看到主卧时的样子，“她只是四处打量，然后说，‘哇，我有一张自己的床了。’”
安妮特此前从未拥有过属于自己的卧室。
“是啊，这份感动会伴随我余生，”安妮特说，“每次我看着她，我都懂。”
母亲节歌颂着世间最深厚的爱。但我们要记住，这一天不只是为了表彰母亲的付出，更是为了铭记，她已经竭尽所能。
After they struggled for years to make ends meet, a daughter opened her home to her mother
2026-05-08 8:52 PM EDT / CBS News
By Steve Hartman
Steve Hartman is a CBS News correspondent. He brings viewers moving stories from the unique people he meets in his weekly award-winning feature segment “On the Road.”
Boca Raton— Boca Raton is one of the wealthiest cities in Florida, but even along its golden sands, people still get stuck in fiscal undertows.
“I caught myself, like, worrying about things that I feel like no kid really should,” 26-year-old Ana Duarte told CBS News. “…Like finances and housing and where I was going to lay my head down that night.”
As a child, Ana says she and her mother were homeless, struggling and constantly moving.
“She always wanted a home,” said Anette Duarte, Ana’s mother. “She always asked me for home…We went through very rough times.”
Anette worked long hours as a maid and took on other odd jobs. But she always felt that at least they had each other — the two of them against the world.
Until high school, that is, when Ana started running out of patience and grace. She turned bitter, beginning to blame her mother for all those years of struggle. Ana eventually left home.
“She would always get mad at me, she think I didn’t care,” Anette said. “And I did care. But my hands were so tied up that I couldn’t do it.”
“For my mom it was, like, torture,” Ana said. “But there was no other option, because I didn’t want to keep living these patterns. I wanted to build my life.”
Which she did. Ana graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a degree in social work and got a job with Food for the Poor, an international Christian relief organization.
She also got her first real apartment, which she told Anette about immediately.
“I called her up,” Ana said. “And I was just like, ‘So I have an apartment. It’s two-bedroom, two-bath. Would you like to come live with me?’”
Ana even gave her mother the master bedroom.
“She not even saying anything,” Ana said of Anette when she first saw the master bedroom. “She’s just looking around and like, ‘Woah, I have a bed.’”
Anette had never had her own bedroom before.
“Yeah, it’s something that’s going to stay [with me] for the rest of my life,” Anette said. “And every time I look at her I know.”
Mother’s Day celebrates the deepest love on Earth. But it’s important to remember that the day isn’t just about rewarding your mom for what she’s done. It’s about recognizing that she did everything she could.
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