Thank you for the lesson I learned while I was married to your son. Im taking him back to you. Dear motherinlaw, It hurts me that...
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Steal my clothes, cowboy! Save me! the desperate woman shrieked from the fogshrouded pond, her voice echoing like a broken hymn. A rustcaked tricycle clattered to...
My morning began exactly as it always had for years. I, Andrew Sinclair, was already up a minute before the alarm went off, a habit Id...
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24May2025 Diary Im writing this after a week that feels like a lifetime. Yesterday Emily turned the kitchen table into a battlefield over a seaside break....
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I cant seem to find the words that will make my daughterinlaw understand that my son is suffering from chronic...
15March2025 Dear Diary, Im writing this for the only person who will ever hear the full truth of what happened...
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14April2025 Today I reflected on the way we tend to look after our ageing parents. My older brother, James, finally...
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Dear Diary, Grandsoninlaw, look!Elsie pressed her nose to the window. A pooch! she cried. Just beyond the gate a scruffy...
He had always felt that something was off, as if his life were travelling on a side track while the...
I remember old Ethel Whitby, who lived on the fringe of a tiny village called Littleford, way out in the...
While ambling along the banks of Windermere, Imogen spied a lone goose looking rather like it was pleading for a...
Mother, you really shouldnt bother making the trip now, my son Alex said, his voice flat over the phone. Its...