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Andrew, pull your cap on, love, it’s freezing out there! Leave it, Mum, if I didn’

Margaret Peterson lunged for the envelope so sharply that everyone flinched, and teaspoons clattered

Andrew, put on your hat, son, its freezing out there! Leave it, Mum, if I didnt freeze in the Arctic

Late at night in the supermarket. One evening, long after most people had gone home, Irene was slumped

Edward, are you joking? I snapped, eyes on the battered rucksack. Youre heading back to your mother again?

“Mum,” said Victor quietly when they were alone in the kitchen, “Ive been thinking

**Diary Entry 12th May** Today, I witnessed something that will stay with me forever. An elderly man

Evelyn, an ancient crone, dabbed away tears that traced the scarred, wrinkled hollows of her cheeks.

Martha was dabbing away the tears that streamed down her pale, deeply lined cheeks. Every now and then

On my wedding day I got a text from the bosss son that read, Youre fired. Happy wedding. I showed it