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Courage, dear heart

We built my daughter a bedroom this month. She’d never had one before – just a curtained off corner of our open plan top floor where we all slept in a tangle of limbs.

The joiner was up for the job. He and my husband sketched it out; shiny new plasterboard walls and MDF doors to make a practical little hallway

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