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‘From an early age, my hands knew the weight of stone.’
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Women Who Dared: From the Infa...
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Hold Fast: Motherhood, My Auti...
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‘Stand under a tree and exchange breath with it. We are part of nature and the rest of nature is all around us.’
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‘Mind you, I miss the tree ootside ma windae. I miss its wrunkelt bark – like me, aa the lines o lang life scored intae oor skin.’
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