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    The MOTHER ODE

    Apr 18, 2022 5 minutes
    HAVING A DAUGHTER AND WATCHING YOU WITH HER REMINDS ME OF WHAT IT WAS TO BE RAISED BY SOMEONE WITH SO MUCH KINDNESS, PATIENCE, AND CARE.

    Dear Mum,

    I am writing this from my office at the Beehive. It’s just gone 10pm. Clarke’s away filming, so you’re at home with Neve. When I left this morning, you were in a nightie, patiently sitting with my three-year-old daughter who has no concept of time. She thought 7am was a perfectly respectable moment to start a craft project (a unicorn mask with bedazzling, to be precise), and you knew that if you sat down with her, distracting her with tiny pink gems, it would be easier for me to slip out.

    I don’t believe that having kids makes us love our mothers more – for me, that vessel was already full. But having a daughter and watching you with her reminds me of what

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