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Fran

Female | 50s | Under 3 minutes
Starts on page 84

EXTRACT: It was so cold. I had no heating - I couldn’t afford it, but I’d wrapped her up as well as I could and left her in the cot. I shut myself in my room and took some sleeping pills. I hadn’t slept in weeks. She was always waking, crying every couple of hours. I was so tired and my mind was running around and around on the same track every day - The nurse was right. I can’t look after her. She’ll be better off without me. It would be better if I died … or if she did…

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