The shawl on the chair
A crocheted shawl, a pair of reading glasses and what they told me about my grandmother’s last winter.
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Apricot jam from a torn page
A recipe card with half its words missing, and how I worked out the rest from taste.
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Tomatoes from a walled garden
The garden my family kept for four generations, and the rows I still remember by name.
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The house we are mending
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A road my grandfather took
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A photograph with fog in it
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A street at dusk
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Building a family history one stone at a time
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What the letters did not say
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Asking my aunt about the garden
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