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Low life

How Captain Mainwaring lightened my mother’s dying days

24 August 2019

9:00 AM

24 August 2019

9:00 AM

On Saturday evening I showered, shaved and, prompted by a strange impulse, put on my going-out clothes. Then I cycled round to the nursing home.

The door of room 33 was ajar and she was fast asleep, mouth open, brow furrowed, as if she were trying to make sense of it all.

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