I want to make contact with my biological family. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa I was adopted at six weeks in 1962. About 16 years ago, when I had two small children, I decided to trace my birth…
Butcher’s bloody window row: a sign of our over sanitised times. The Week
SUDBURY in Suffolk isn’t often in the news, let alone on Newsnight. At first I thought they’d got the wrong Sudbury and meant the one in London…
My husband has grown apart from his brother and they rarely see each other. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa My husband is a loving, gentle person, who used to be best friends with his younger brother. Since my brother-in-law met his wife, J,…
My youngest daughter rarely visits and I find it hard to talk to her. The Guardian
Dear Annalisa My youngest daughter, S, is 44; I am 75. Her father and I separated when she was nearly 18 – she chose to stay…
Tony Benn: no spin, no false sympathy, no nonsense. The Week.
I HAVE no special anecdote about the former Labour MP and Cabinet minister, Tony Benn, who is, as I write, still alive, just very ill and…
Should my young see his grand-dad in the late stages of a terminal illness? The Guardian
Dear Annalisa My beloved father has just been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour. It is early days and, as yet, we have no idea about…
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