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She was too YOUNG TO DIE

The older I get, the younger my mother’s age of death seems. My mum Piari was 62 when she died of womb cancer on Christmas Eve 2014 – four days after my 40th birthday. I am now 46 and, since then, I’ve learnt that you can’t predict how certain events in your life will shape your future.

My mother’s parents were old when they died. We would go to my grandparents’ house, which was local to us, and do things that you’d expect to do with grandparents; we’d have tea and cake, talk about old family memories and laugh

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