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Dear Mum | ‘You loved me so completely and still couldn’t stay’
Hebe was fifteen when her mum died. But, as she writes in this letter, she’d already lost her so many times before then.
Writing to her mum, Patricia, Hebe remembers a woman who was magnetic, fiercely loving, unpredictable and unforgettable. The art galleries, the enormous laugh, the shiny red shoes and a pottery holiday that included a real-life fairy garden. But she also remembers the absences, the alcoholism and the childhood spent loving someone who couldn’t always be there when she needed her.
This is a letter about growing up with a complicated mum, about the grief that can begin long…
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