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287: What if you couldn’t explain his heinous act?

This Is Actually Happening

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The Relationship Between Me and My Mum

I was 14 when my mum was diagnosed with colon cancer, so I just remember her on the sofa looking very pale and it was pretty striking to see somebody in that situation. As her cancer progressed, she was having a sense of her own mortality at that point. The relationship between me and my mum started to sort of seep through the guilt and the shaming. There was a lot of really insane fights between my mum and I. You shouldn't fight with somebody who's really sick like that but what people didn't know is that I was born into that dynamic.

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