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Oh My Dog!
Published: 10th Apr 2013
“UP UNTIL May 2011 I had no belief in God at all. I only went to church for occasional weddings, funerals and midnight mass to sing Christmas carols.
But everything changed in May, when I took my dog, Gemma, out on our usual walk. We were crossing a wooden bridge which had happened every day for 18 months, Gemma was pottering along behind me as she always did. I distinctly heard a...
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"Remember me"
Published: 29th Jan 2013
YOU’VE SEEN them by the side of roads: flowers, plaques and markers. Often taped badly to traffic lights and to fence posts. Ragged, faded old bunches, or bright fresh wreaths. Imperishable plastic poppies.
They speak of grief, these roadside memorials of all kinds and colours.
In the 1940s, the Arizona State Highway Patrol began using white crosses to mark...
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"My mate dragged me from death's door!"
Published: 27th Sep 2011
"I WOKE up with a bit of a headache and felt queasy. But I should have been dead."
Alex had taken 20 paracetamol and 40 antihistamines in an attempt to end his life.
Amazingly, no treatment was needed. "I was perfectly fine. None of the nurses could understand it".
Alex's suicide attempt was the tragic upshot of a tough childhood. His parents...
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Cross Perspective #4, By the Centurion responsible for the Crucifixtion...
Published: 20th Jan 2008
BUT the tunic was woven in one piece. "Why not make it a game then, cast lots for it" we said. And it fell to me, as it happens.
Still, it was a long day. Noon came, and darkness fell over the whole land until three o'clock. The sun was obscured. It was weirdly still. I found myself holding my breath and didn't know why.
"It's getting late." We...
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Which is me?
Published: 24th Nov 2007
FOR THE first fourteen years of her life, Jessica and her sister, Sophie, were brought up by their dad near Shepherd's Bush, West London. Three of Jessica's half-sisters and her half-brother lived with her mother in a different area of London.
"Dad gave up his job as a fitter to become a single parent," says Jessica. "Dad's flat was small but he did a good job...
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