The new academic year. Am I broken?

DJ Cooper
DJ Cooper
Sep 5, 2018 · 4 min read
Photo by Tim Gouw from Pexels

Every year, social media is filled with caregivers, mainly mums, stating how their baby has gone back to school into whichever year group. Or how they cried at the school gate watching their child go to school for the first time. I’ve always been a stranger on the outside looking into this bubble of emotion. To me, the run-up to the new academic year is merely a statement of fact and something to be thought about only in terms…

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DJ Cooper

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Wife, mother, award winning author of fiction. Vaguely amusing. Owns a tortoise, two bunnies & a flying, fire breathing bearded dragon. Quite mad.

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