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Cauliflower ENDURES

EMPATHY can be learned, right? It’s my mother’s 100th birthday today. When the rain eases off we can pop some flowers on her grave. Meanwhile, I serve the gathered family members sausage rolls in her memory, with a bottle of our homemade Nana’s Sauce.

It would be fair to say I had a vexed relationship with her throughout my childhood, one

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