The loneliness of being A MIDLIFE ORPHAN
May 11, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS: ROSA SILVERMAN/TELEGRAPH MEDIA GROUP LTD.
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A couple of months after my mother died in 2018, I posted a picture on Twitter of a gloriously homemade-looking sandwich cake with cream filling bursting from its middle. ‘My mum always made me a birthday cake,’ I wrote. ‘Every year for 44 years. Two months since she died and my old dad tried his hardest and my heart melted.’
‘THE END CAME SO QUICKLY’
I never imagined it would chime with quite as many people as it did. But perhaps that s because, until I lost both my parents in just six months, it
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