Dear Matilda

I’m so grateful you never met your Dad

Matilda Fairholm
Nov 4 · 2 min read
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My name is not Matilda. It is not safe for me to write under my real name.

Matilda is the name my son “Jack” would have had, had he been a girl.

It is also the name I had picked for a baby girl in the four pregnancies that came and went before Jack was born.

The son I had

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Matilda Fairholm

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Student of Life. From Australia, a country of beautiful contrasts (and also of odd spelling, so I’m told .....)

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