Anonymous 1477
“My mother's truth came when she met her cousins. He said your mother had a beautiful singing voice. It was the first time my Mum had met a blood relative to her Mum. I will never forget how she looked, how it changed her, how much those words meant to her. Her whole body changed in her joy of those words. I try not to think about what could have been. How it took till my Mum was in her 80's for this to happen.”
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