One Operator’s Momentary Neglect Changed Her Life Forever…Probably His Too…

One Operator’s Momentary Neglect Changed Her Life Forever…Probably His Too…
Yet she never apportioned blame, typical of the empathetic human she was.
Maria Rattray
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Mar 21
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One moment in time and everything is changed. Photo by Anne Nygård on UnsplashWhen my mother mooted the idea that she and Dad should migrate to Australia, I was less-than-positive.
I felt she was too old to leave a country she had grown up in, to leave her family and…
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