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Category: Family

Family

Heartbreak

“Just this one favour and I promise I won’t ask you for anything ever again,” I plead for the third time, guzzling my coffee so

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Childhood

The Captain

Rugby was my stronghold, my fortress. It was rugby that gave me escape when Dad called again to say his business trip was going to

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Family

Meet Margery

Mother, I’m so sorry it’s been such a long time since I visited you. The thing is, Amy is becoming such a handful, and it’s

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Family

The Right Shoe

Red was his favourite colour. Oh, how he loved to kick a football, and preferably a red one. His little foot would push the ball

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Family

The Three Musketeers

We were always three, my sisters and me. We went to the prom together, no boys, just us three. We studied in the library together:

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Dreams

Cities Apart

My granddaughter, Gemma, turned twenty-three last week. She’s the new art director at an advertising firm. I think that’s right. She was twenty-one when she

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