There’s a ritual Laura Wellington performs every April ahead of her youngest daughter Imogen’s birthday. ‘Each birthday that I have not seen her,’ she explains, ‘I buy her a card and gift and wrap it as if she were going to be here. I then put it in the drawer to wait for her.’
Laura starts sobbing gently. ‘Whether I buy ten gifts before I see her, or 40 gifts, I know that she’ll get them some day.’
Laura hasn’t spoken to her 27-year-old daughter for two years.
Now 60, she still doesn’t fully comprehend the reasons, she admits, though she believes at
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