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Afternoons are for getting out of bed (opens the original)
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I open my eyes with the “what year is this” attitude that I’ve learned means it’s way past my usual wake-up hour. I check my phone; I’m horrified to discover it’s 5 PM. Cold sweat runs down my spine as I think of the conversation my team leader will have with me about a missed day of work without warning, before I remember I’m not supposed to work today.Katara is sleeping soundly next to me, her head resting on my arm. I know she’s half the reason I must have turned off my alarms, set to the rea
On Being (Too) Sensitive (opens the original)
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When I was in my teens, every friendship ending broke my heart. I shed tears over every girlfriend who let me down by never checking on me during the two weeks I skipped school because of pneumonia, or gossiped to her friends about my sexual life, or told me last minute she wouldn’t come to my birthday because she “didn’t feel like it,” even though she was the only one invited. My mum would stroke my head as I cried into her shoulder and wondered why my friends didn’t care as much as I did. The
Mothers and Daughters (opens the original)
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It’s not the easiest of tasks — living in a different country from your mum, when you wish you could see each other’s faces more often, go out for drinks on weekends, maybe have an occasional girls’ night in.On her birthdays, I like to order a bouquet of flowers to be delivered to her, failing to remember year after year which ones are her favourites. This year, it’s a pretty little bouquet of hydrangeas, bush roses, Peruvian lilies, and a few branches of eucalyptus — all wrapped in baby green p
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