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The loss of you lingers - by Shaun Usher - Letters of Note

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I realise Mother’s Day is difficult for many, and to those people I send my sympathies. Please be aware that today’s letter may not be for you. It’s from daughter to mother, written ten years after the latter’s death.

I realise Mother’s Day is difficult for many, and to those people I send my sympathies. Please be aware that today’s letter may not be for you. It’s from daughter to mother, written ten years after the latter’s death. It can be found in Letters of Note: Mothers, reprinted by kind permission of Karin Cook. In 1989, fifty-two-year-old Long Island resident Joan Cook Carpenter died from breast cancer, a disease she had chosen to keep from her family and friends until her final days in an effort to minimise the suffering of those she loved. In 1999, a decade after Joan’s death, her…

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