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E is for Elf and Evergreens
unseen hands making true lucky children's wishes their coats are never new but, in Winter, riches
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D is for Dove (Decoration and Real)
blind symbol of peace, cut from wordless paper, swings hunger flown further out shy beauty on grey wings
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C is for Cracker and Chestnut
two hands snap! out old joke cheap toy, soon lost and crown velvet lips speak through spikes of secrets swelling brown
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B is for Bauble and Rowan Berries
sparkling, empty, always perfect this man-made fruit, unlike seedful berries gloriously unput
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A is for Angel and Ash Tree
watching with unpacked calm pale face in cornered dark as ash trees reach, each arm in sleek, moonsliver bark
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That must have been so
Posted on Mon, 23 Nov 2015
That must have been so cruelly hard, having been surrounded by your new friends and everything sorted, then all alone in this frightening place, but wonderful that their kindness even reached in there with a 'new' mattress and sheets. That chair...
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Have realised, this is a
Posted on Sat, 21 Nov 2015
Have realised, this is a story about women, isn't it? The land lady, Granny, the ladies who got beaten up and went back to those who hurt them, and You, the others who got out out and made better lives for yourselves and your children, who didn't...
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You do a great job instilling
Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2015
You do a great job instilling a sense of fear and disgust at this new accomodation! I am kind of surprised that no one checked up that you had a safe place to go, it doesn't seem responsible at all, to let you and your baby fall through the...
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I love how you describe the
Posted on Mon, 16 Nov 2015
I love how you describe the others in the refuge - even though you must all have been struggling, so much support! It is lovely to read of the kindness, perhaps Granny's nastiness even made you all closer, a threat you could overcome and looking...
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That must have been such joy,
Posted on Sat, 14 Nov 2015
That must have been such joy, to hold your baby again, getting him back, since it had been the two of you against the world. But to be told you had to let him go back to the situation you had rescued him from, and then be told you had to leave...
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To think, if it hadn't been
Posted on Thu, 12 Nov 2015
To think, if it hadn't been for that piece you posted this week, would never have read any of this! I feel as Bee says, to have thought of you always as so sensitive, a born poet through and through, it makes your bravery and resilience the more...
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This is great writing, the
Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2015
This is great writing, the relief that you have somewhere away from the landmines you described in the first part! And the contrast between welcome kindness and hostility of the other residents, the details of toothpaste, wonderful. It's good you...
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As others say, this is
Posted on Sun, 08 Nov 2015
As others say, this is AMAZING WRITING, Jenny. I am so glad you had a good health visitor, so there was one person who understood and knew how to help. Thank goodness she was there! I believe this would help others, to read. It is so kind of you...
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As others have said, your
Posted on Sat, 07 Nov 2015
As others have said, your bravery shines through. I was never brave enough to try going on my own, and having read the whole of your account of this time, that was the right choice for my son and me, whatever anybody said, I could not have coped...
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Wow! What a writer you are :0
Posted on Sun, 13 Dec 2015
Wow! What a writer you are :0) And what a resilient person! This is so, so good. And the perfect ending, not what I had expected, but perfect :0) To have gone from the frightened young Mum at the beginning, to this person who could turn down an...
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