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‘Enchanté,’ he said, kindly overlooking my faux pas. I couldn’t remember anyone in my life ever having been genuinely enchanted to meet me.
felt the desperate urge to take a holiday from myself and all of my rules.
‘Two people can have the same experience, yet still have completely different memories of it.’
he wore that same mask we all did, those who are left behind, trying to carry on. The club no one wants to be a member of.
It did change everything; so much so that I had to change who I was in order to gain some kind of control over my life again.
In the process of becoming Mum’s carer, I had to abandon some of my own needs. And while I had no regrets about that and would do the same thing in a heartbeat if I could have her back, I was beginning to wonder if those missing parts would ever return. And who would I be if they did?
The very raison d’être of social media was having something to show the world, and up to now, I didn’t think my life had anything worth bragging about.
