Mum went from well to dead in two weeks. She had backaches for ages, and then started being sick. They said it was pancreatic cancer, and that it was far too advanced to treat. Two weeks after diagnosis, in a hospice, she died. I drifted around shell-shocked. I’ve since learned this foul disease takes no priso...
So, the day of the funeral was shitty beyond words. Mum made it clear no-one was to wear black, so I wore the summer dress she had recently bought me.
Back at the house there was a.....a what?......party? Reception? Either way there were a fuck-ton of people there and some I didn’t even know.
At one p...
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