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Parasols & Poetry

t’s difficult to imagine a parasol at this time of year when the weather is cool and the sun is lower in the sky. But, to my good fortune, I don’t have to imagine one. Before she passed on, my mother-in-law gifted me a parasol that has been in her family for generations. Mum never knew who its first owner

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