5 minute reads from a 50something woman

5 minute reads from a 50something woman

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5 minute reads from a 50something woman
5 minute reads from a 50something woman
I have never seen my mother cry.

I have never seen my mother cry.

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Cary J Hansson
Mar 27, 2022
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5 minute reads from a 50something woman
5 minute reads from a 50something woman
I have never seen my mother cry.
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My mum

I’ve heard her, just once. In the darkness of a hotel room, I lay on the sofa-bed staring at the ceiling listening to her sob, quietly, so as not to disturb either myself, or my father.  

I was fully grown. Forty something, and we’d travelled north because I was working on a poetry project that required a re-visit of the seaside town where I’d spen…

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