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Simon Sweetman
Jul 10, 2018
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I never knew if my mum

ever read my poems.

last weekend we caught up

briefly.

she couldn’t remember the name of the

book she’d been reading, nor the author – but

she definitely had it – somewhere - on her kindle.

“you’d like her”, she said.

“she writes all her stories a bit like you do,

in funny, long columns…”

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