Mending a FAMILY RIFT
Nov 17, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS: TESS STIMSON
As I worked my way through writing this year’s pile of Christmas cards, my daughter Lily, 18, peered over my shoulder and asked who ‘Philly’ was, and why I was putting so many kisses. When I told her Philly was my sister – and her aunt – she gasped in astonishment.
‘You’ve got a sister?’ Lily exclaimed. ‘How could I not know that?’
It’s no wonder she was surprised. For decades, there’d been distance, both geographically and emotionally, between Philippa, 47, and me. I never spoke about her in front of my children, and before lockdown, I’d had no contact with my sister for almost
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