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Friday essay: at 42, my mother discovered her half-sister. Would her childhood have been bearable if they grew up together?

By Heather Taylor Johnson, Adjunct Research Fellow at the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide

Heather Taylor Johnson’s mother had a difficult, lonely childhood. How would it have been different if her half-sister had grown up with her?

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