To Celebrate Mother’s Day, TIME Asked Influential Moms to Write Open Letters to Their Children

Ali Wentworth to Elliott and Harper

First let me just say, I’m sorry about your names. But Stephanopoulos is such a grand, Greek last name. You wouldn’t want to be Athena Feta Mount Olympus Stephanopoulos, would you? Elliott is my grandmother (your great-grandmother’s family name), and Harper was a gorgeous word I dreamt. I woke up one morning and shouted, “Harper!” and that’s what we named you…

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