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Dear Diary, I sent Emily to Margarets for a bit of help and have been kicking myself ever since. Never again, Im not going back to...
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28October2025 Dear Diary, The call from Mum came just after breakfast. She sounded worried and asked me to pop over to Grans in the suburbs. Shes...
Annas sisterinlaw grabs my brandnew dress without asking, and I throw a massive fit. Emily, look how it sits! She looks like a queen, no doubt!...
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When I was sixteen, I found myself pregnant by Tom Gray, the boy I adored. Tom and I had been courting at school in York for...
15March2024 I was born into a modest, warmhearted family that seemed to move at a slower rhythm than the world outside. There were four of us...
I cannot think what to do any longer. My son always sides with his wife even when she is plainly wrong. I’m at my wit’s end,...