For Cierra Skory, becoming a mother at just 15 years old was the start of an arduous but rewarding journey.

Decades later, with a newborn baby of her own, she was a witness to one of the proudest moments of her life: her daughter's high school graduation. It was there that her daughter, Aislynn, 18, made a statement so profound that it brought her mother to tears.

Skory, 34, shared the emotional moment in a TikTok video . She told Newsweek about overcoming the challenges of young motherhood and how she feels looking back on it all now.

The video shows Aislynn, dressed in a graduation gown, with her mother holding her newborn baby. Aislynn placed her graduation robe onto Skory's shoulders and said: "I did it for us." As the caption explained, the mom "lost it" at her daughter's ges

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