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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“I find it frightening now that Mum knew how she ought to behave and yet she chose not do that all those years she actually had us in her care.”
― Mae West, Love as Always, Mum xxx

“she couldn’t be in control of her children she didn’t want them.”
― Mae West, Love as Always, Mum xxx

“Mum had been working as a waitress in a tea room in Cheltenham when Dad first saw her. It was 1969 and she was fifteen. He was twenty-eight”
― Mae West, Love as Always, Mum xxx

“people might regard as young to be having a first child, but by my mother’s standards it was late. By the time she had reached that age, Mum had three children of her own, was pregnant with a fourth, and had two stepchildren. I had the impression that my own failure to shell out babies at a similar age was a”
― Mae West, Love as Always, Mum xxx

“One of the hardest experiences during that time was going to pick up what was left of the house. I don’t suppose anyone thinks about what happens after a home becomes a crime scene – I certainly never had before.”
― Mae West, Love as Always, Mum xxx

“Mum copied out a prayer and sent it to me today. It’s a lovely prayer, reading it made my eyes well up. But then she does this quite a lot: copies things out and sends them to me as if she’s written them herself. It’s telling of who she is, I suppose: she knows the things she should be saying, but they’re not true to her.”
― Mae West, Love as Always, Mum xxx

“It’s our relationship all over: I cared. She didn’t.”
― Mae West, Love as Always, Mum xxx