like it. But sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind when you are a mother. And the sooner this is done, the sooner the child can start her new life. Can learn to put the past behind her. I go to the bathroom cabinet and take the hairdressing scissors from the top shelf. I haven’t used them for a long time. Matthew got to the age, as all boys do, when he no longer wanted his mother to cut his hair. He went to a barber in the town centre one Saturday without me knowing. I cried when I saw what they’d done. It was too severe, it didn’t suit him. I think even he realised that, although of
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