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A moment that changed me: My mother fell off a mountain – and my life began again

A bad breakup had made me afraid I would be mired in anger for ever. But on that family hike, in our fear and horror as we awaited the air ambulance, my old hurts took on a different hue To steal a well-known line, 2023 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted…

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