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Sometimes we need to fall to find out where we stand
These once strong people who had sacrificed so much of themselves for her benefit were being washed away by life, reduced to shadows, ghosts of their past selves.
When you hit what you know can’t be anything other than rock bottom, someone is sure to hand you a shovel so you can keep digging
How fleeting and fragile life could be, like spider thread. One minute someone was there; the next gone, leaving a space that felt so much bigger than the physical one they had occupied.
But no daughter is perfect, no mother is perfect. We can only do our best, and you always did your best. You never let her down.’
It was the hardest part of raising children, standing back and letting them run their own show, play to their own script, ignoring the more cautious and sensible one you had written for them.
She said that sometimes the value of truth is overrated, keep the past as the past, unless it ruins the present.
‘Maybe, my darling girl, you need to go backwards in order to go forward.’
