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Scottish writer, traveller, and keeper of memories. Writing about grief, silence, and the recipes that remember us.
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I long for days (opens the original)
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I long for days when we laughed so hardour insides hurtwhen we sat in sunshine eating ice creamdays that were ours to talk away timeI long for days that we ate cakeand drank coffeewatching the rain trickle down the windowwhen you’d call me 500 miles away to tell meit was snowingI long for days so ordinary.// When you knew my name.(after Emory Hall, ‘what we lost’ )<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_
Pink (opens the original)
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Summer days (opens the original)
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After (opens the original)
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Wish (opens the original)
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