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Dancing the Mother's Day Tango

Dancing the Mother's Day Tango

The nuances of the emotion and experience of being a Mother, a Daughter and a Child.

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May 12, 2024
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It’s always a tricky dance for me this day. A week before I became a mother for the for the first time and a lifetime of grieving a relationship with my mother that I wish I’d had.

Holding my first babe for the first time after birthing him

My Mum raised us blind, her mother taking her life when my mother was 8 weeks old. It isn’t easy raising children as…

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