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The problems come when we can’t access the thing we need. That’s when people find out.
‘We have the privilege to be able to sort it out.
The only thing that hasn’t changed is that it’s still the woman’s fault.’ She has believed this for forty years, believed it’s all her fault. And her mother reinforced that.
sorry.’ Some things are too wide for sorry. I nod, and I tuck her words away.
didn’t lose my mother to death: I lost her to difference. To a difference in the way we perceived the world, to a difference in what mattered, in where we would find our happiness.
the sea bubbles up around my toes with that bracing prickle. I only ever put my feet into the water. I am, at long last, a person who doesn’t have to swim if she doesn’t want to. At last, I can enjoy paddling, enjoy the shallows.
