Separated six years before, the annual coming together of all four meant more to us than any of us would care to admit,
having never mentioned the split or the shit, we’d take each other in, our heads in a spin, full of laughter and joy,
walking off the Christmas lunch; ahem, the older ones may’ve even been drunk, while the younger ones spoke of their new toys; ahem, and possibly even about boys,
and all the while during this Australian summer, this moment having been captured by our mother; of watching her children coming together, enjoying each other - the rarity of all four, of one another being in the same place, in the same space,
I could only imagine how she must’ve felt,
and so we just took it all in our stride, and cherished the amount of time we had - to be glad for the joy, the laughter, this moment in time,
that was captured in 1989.
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Jess Boyes
From Melbourne, Australia, I love creative writing and food, particularly a good quality cheese or some sort of dairy.
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