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A letter of advice from mother to daughter

Award-winning British journalist and author Caitlin Moran hails from Brighton, England, the eldest of eight siblings whose working-class family grew up in the city of Wolverhampton. The mother of two girls herself, in 2013 she wrote the following letter to one of her daughters, explaining at the time: My daughter is about to turn 13 and I’ve been smoking a lot recently, and so – in the wee small hours, when my lungs feel like there’s a small mouse inside them, scratching to get out – I’ve thought about writing her one of those “Now I’m Dead, Here’s My Letter Of Advice For You To Consult As…

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