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  • Blog Post: Out Of The Blue

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    Posted 9 months ago
    On Sunday 2 September I braced myself for grief. From a few days before I knew what was coming. Six months since he took his final breath. I lit all his candles, and I kneeled down in front of my photos, ‘the shrine’ to him. I was sad. As I spoke to him I shed a tear. But I didn’t...

  • Blog Post: Mother Dearest

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    Posted 9 months ago
    I am a daddy’s girl; his little princess and mini-me. My mum knows this, and over the last 18 months she has watched as my world shattered around me; as I dedicated my every moment to care for him, and then my every tear as I grieved the loss of my first true love. My parents seperated when...

  • Blog Post: The Rainbow

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    03 March 2012 On his first day of testing out his new magic powers he sent me a shooting star. 04 March 2012 Every day since I have seen a rainbow. For the first few days it appeared on the carpet outside my bedroom, reflecting off a nearby mirror. I began to fear the day I didn't...

  • Blog Post: There Is Something Wrong With The Tree

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    02 March 2012 A story shared between a father and a daughter. A story for the past. For the present. And for the future. As a young girl he read The Magic Faraway Tree stories to me at bedtime. As a mother I hope to share these with my own children. But first I want to reshare them with my father...

  • Blog Post: The Day The Earth Stood Still

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    02 March 2012 I held his hand. I kissed his hand. I begged him not to leave me. I told him I needed him. But more importantly I told him I loved him. He is my hero. He is the Guide and the Weight of My World. He is my everything. And I am his mini-me. I held his hand. He took his final breath...

  • Blog Post: Moonface & The Slippery Slip

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    Posted over 1 year ago
    My dad is sleeping a lot at the moment. I read him a few chapters of The Magic Faraway Tree a few nights ago, the story he read to me and my brother night after night when we were young. It meant so much to me. But it was the ultimate bedtime story, knocked him out for days! I didn't see him awake...