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mama me-time

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me-time

food for the soul

Daddy’s Gone - Can I Do It
Myself?

M y husband, my dad each other. We worked together to university; I started a family mother, baby & child April 2011
and other members in the workshop, a growing quite young, as it was common
of the family rushed family business. He was doing then. My husband and the life
to the place to establish the the physical work, and I was we had built together was all I
damage and try to stop the fire the administrator. I never went knew.
from spreading to neighbouring
houses. In the dark, my husband
did not see the thick cable
lying on the ground. No one
saw it. It should have been
disconnected; but it was not.
When he stepped on it, it took
not even a second to burn my
husband’s life, to stop his heart
from beating. In that split-
second, my two girls’ and my
life would be changed forever.
At the age of forty, I then found
myself a widow, a mother on
my own. With my husband, we
completed each other, relied on

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