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Mum’s Death

February 17, 2024
As I said in my previous post, my mum died on October 4th 2023. She was just over a month shy of her 84th birthday. A good innings, so people say. She had Parkinson's dementia and I have written about it a little in previous posts. It was extremely difficult to deal with. In the…
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