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My Mum Was TOLD I WAS DEAD It Took Me 17 Years To Find Her

Oct 8, 2020

We were arguing again, as teenage sisters do. Whatever Tammy, then 18, and I were rowing about must have felt like a big deal but I can’t even remember that now. All I remember was her final shot. ‘At least my biological parents wanted me,’ she blur

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Sweet Ella Killed By Her Brother

Dec 19, 2019

Stuffed full of Chinese food, 13-year-old Paris and his sister, Ella, four, watched an Alice in Wonderland cartoon with their babysitter. It was Sunday night, and their single mum, Charity, was working the late shift as a waitress. ‘Just one more k

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Why I’m Glad Mum Isn’t Alive

Jun 16, 2020

I was devastated when my mother, Madge, died two years ago, after suffering a stroke in her care home. Not a day has gone by since then when I haven’t missed her unbearably, wishing for just one more hug or smile. But that changed when the coronaviru

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My Best Friend’s Death WAS MY FAULT

Dec 24, 2020

Chrissie, 48, Canberra, ACT While waiting in court for the sentencing, I felt numb. What was about to happen wouldn’t change a thing. My best friend, Laura*, was dead – beautiful, funny Laura. She was just 32 and, like me, a mum to a little girl.

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Breaking The Cycle

Nov 16, 2021

Editor’s note: This article contains frank discussion of suicide, self-harm, abuse and other topics some readers may find upsetting Life is not fair, I conclude, as I sit and listen to Joanna. “It started after my mum left”, she explains. “I was just

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Karina machado

Mar 2, 2020

Karina Machado is a journalist, host of the Spirit Sisters podcast and the author of Spirit Sisters, Where Spirits Dwell and Love Never Dies, a non-fiction series exploring the extraordinary experiences of ordinary people. Now, on The Ghost Files pod

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Face To Face With MUM’S KILLER

Jul 16, 2020

Kathryn Gaskell, 25, Manchester Walking into my mum’s bedroom, I was greeted by a familiar scene. Mum, Tracy, then 44, was nestling under the duvet. The sun was shining through the open curtains, and she was listening to her Savage Garden CD. As she

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Visits From The OTHER SIDE

Jul 23, 2020

Karina Machado, 48, Sydney, NSW Standing in the doorway was a man in military regalia, his medals gleaming on his broad chest. I was eight and it was my first experience with the ‘other side’. Four decades later, if I close my eyes, I can still see

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A Debut Novelist Imagines Life After Her Own Death

Aug 4, 2022

I was 17 years old when I died. The post A Debut Novelist Imagines Life After Her Own Death appeared first on The Millions.

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Diagnosis: Murder

Aug 6, 2020

He’d made an oath to save lives, but he’d break that promise... They were two talented doctors who had committed their lives to their patients and to each other. Mohammed Shamji, 43, was a world-renowned neurosurgeon at Toronto Western Hospital and

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Joanna Nell

Oct 22, 2020

For her third novel, Sydney-based author and GP Joanna Nell tells the story of Hattie Bloom, an 89-year-old woman who winds up in a nursing home after a fall but dreams of escape. Here, Nell reveals how her work in medicine inspired her to share th

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My wife SAVED SIX LIVES

Jul 21, 2021

John Lowe, 55, Croydon, Vic Scanning the supermarket shelves one afternoon, I felt very content. For most people, shopping for groceries is mundane. But wandering through the shops arm-in-arm with my beautiful wife, Louise, then 44, there was no pl