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\"As we all got older we had many conversations about life, faith, morals, health, and the importance of getting your beauty sleep. She’d start every phone call or message with 'Martina. This is your mother'. She loved to laugh and to tell stories to get a laugh. And even though she told me in the hospital that she wasn’t “an enthusiastic cook” she made the best fried chicken I’ve ever tasted.\"

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The singer also detailed her final days with her mother.

\"I spent the last week with her in ICU, with my dad, my brothers, and my sister, and a fantastic and caring team of doctors who went above and beyond to try and get her to a place where her heart would sustain her.\"

In a tweet earlier Friday, the singer said her mother was undergoing emergency heart surgery and asked fans for prayers.

I’ve been absent on social media because I’ve spent the past week with my family surrounding my mom with love 24/7 in a Kansas hospital following her emergency heart surgery. She’s a fighter and one of the strongest women I know but she could use your prayers please. Thank you.

— Martina McBride (@martinamcbride) January 10, 2020

McBride said that during her time with her mother in the hospital, she \"held her hand, rubbed her shoulders, stroked her face, told her I loved her and she told me she loved me.\"

\"Even though I wish it had ended differently I wouldn’t have traded that time with her for anything,\" McBride added. \"So now we try and move forward without our matriarch. And somehow, in time, we will. Because she taught us how to be strong. I love you Mom.\"

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