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Apr 2Liked by Christina Patterson

Sending you love. As always, such a great piece when the words did eventually arrive. Iā€™m with you on both the worry and the renovations (and the way they do seem to prevent you from thinking about anything else in any kind of productive way!)

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Mar 30Liked by Christina Patterson

How wonderful that you're here (in all senses).

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Mar 30Liked by Christina Patterson

This really moved me. Like you, Iā€™ve clocked up almost 22 years of life since my cancer diagnosis, along with a desire to live them as closely aligned with all the things I love as possible. And recently Iā€™ve also sensed the fragility of life more than usual, with a friendā€™s leukaemia diagnosis, plus my 5-year-old talking incessantly about death, which is entirely age-appropriate, but somewhat unsettling. X

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Mar 30Liked by Christina Patterson

This is a beautiful, thoughtful and heartfelt piece, Christina. Thank you for sharing it.

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Mar 30Ā·edited Mar 30Liked by Christina Patterson

Nice article and completely spot on. We always find who our friends are when disaster strikes. I hope your friends recover well from their surgery and treatments.

And speaking of contractors, I feel that too as weā€™ve just had to cut into our cabinets to get to the pipes that leaked all over the basement. Iā€™m not enjoying the cost, as we only redid the kitchen 5 years ago.

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