Yesterday I went to a funeral. A friend’s mother. She was 88, frail, with dementia. It’s a bitter pill we have to swallow, aging, but, as the cliché goes, it’s better than the alternative – although perhaps less so towards the end. As is the way now, there was a slide show of her life. …
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“Does every woman secretly crave a daughter?” Well top marks for an attention-grabbing title for this recent opinion piece in one of our Sunday magazines. My personal and very articulate response which may or may not have been uttered out loud was – “Ummmm, no, that would be a no”. But as a mother to one…
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