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That's how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words .. .Debbie Howells
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Everyone has a destiny. Rosie told me that. A future that already exists — hidden from us but still there, in the future — and each thing that happens to us, each choice we make, each person in our life takes us closer to it.Debbie Howells
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I discover, too, that grief is different to different people. Comes in many guises. In shocked silences and closed doors around our village, as people try to shut it out. That a blank face or fleeting smile can hide the worst, most private kind of agony.Debbie Howells