The young love of

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What is the meaning of "the young love of my mother" in this sentence?

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"What use are now my talismans, my touchstones: the practice of literature, vague learning, and apprenticeship to the language used by the flinty Northland to sing of its seas and its swords, the serenity of friendship, the galleries of the Library, ordinary things, habits, the young love of my mother, the soldierly shadow cast by my dead ancestors, the timeless night, the flavour of sleep and dream?" from The Threatened One by Jorge Luis Borges.